VMware Hosted products, VI Client and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

a. Denial of service guest to host vulnerability in a virtual deviceA vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver, could allow a guest operating system to crash the host and consequently any virtual machines on that host.VMware would like to thank Andrew Honig of the Department of Defense for reporting this issue.The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2008-4916 to this issue.The following table lists what action remediates the vulnerability (column 4) if a solution is available.