CVE-2012-1508 describes a vulnerability in the XPDM display driver of VMware ESXi, ESX, and View products, allowing guest OS users to escalate privileges or cause a denial of service through a NULL pointer dereference. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity, indicating that a local attacker can achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 4.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:view:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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