CVE-2012-1510

high
Published 2012-03-16 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
7.2

Description

Buffer overflow in the WDDM display driver in VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0; VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1; and VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareesx4.0
vmware vmwareesx4.1
vmware vmwareview{"endIncluding":"4.6.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.