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Re: VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2
| From: |
Steve Shockley <steve shockley shockley net> |
| To: |
VMware Security team <security vmware com> |
| Cc: |
bugtraq securityfocus com, full-disclosure lists grok org uk |
| Subject: |
Re: VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2 |
| Date: |
Wed - Dec 03, 2008 10:11 AM |
On 12/3/2008 12:24 AM, VMware Security team wrote:
> A memory corruption condition may occur in the virtual machine
> hardware. A malicious request sent from the guest operating
> system to the virtual hardware may cause the virtual hardware to
> write to uncontrolled physical memory.
So, does this vuln potentially allow a guest -> host escalation?
"Memory corruption" is kind of vague.
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