VMSA-2012-0009 VMware Workstation, Player, ESXi and ESX patches address critical security issues

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2012-0009 Synopsis: VMware Workstation, Player, ESXi and ESX patches address critical security issues Issue date: 2012-05-03 Updated on:...

CVE-2012-1517

CVE-2012-1517 affects VMware ESXi/ESX 4.1 where the VMX process mishandles RPC commands, allowing a guest user to cause a memory overwrite and denial of service or potentially execute code on the host via function pointer vectors. Connected sources confirm the issue is tied to RPC handling in VMX...