CVE-2012-1517 - Barmecidal Rotation

Description

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers.

Reference

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231 http://osvdb.org/81692 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75374 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369