Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 4, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2012-1517
CVE-2012-1517
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.
Affected products
2Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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