CVEs-PoC/2012/CVE-2012-1517.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html

Github

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