CVE-2008-4279

2008-10-0600:00:00

ubuntu.com

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.9%

JSON

The CPU hardware emulation for 64-bit guest operating systems in VMware
Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488 and 5.x before 5.5.8 build
108000; Player 2.0.x before 2.0.5 build 109488 and 1.x before 1.0.8; Server
1.x before 1.0.7 build 108231; and ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5 allows
authenticated guest OS users to gain additional guest OS privileges by
triggering an exception that causes the virtual CPU to perform an indirect
jump to a non-canonical address.