Description
VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.
References
- TA12-164A third-party-advisory
- MS12-042 vendor-advisory
- 52820 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17110 vdb-entry signature
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15209 vdb-entry signature
- 1026875 vdb-entry
- vmware-esxserver-io-privilege-escalation(74480) vdb-entry