CVE-2012-2450 - Umbilicate Hottotrot

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3 VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3 VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2 VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0 and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Reference

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16852 http://osvdb.org/81695 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75377 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019 http://secunia.com/advisories/49032