CVE-2012-2449

critical

Published 2012-05-04 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x through 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly configure the virtual floppy device, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	workstation	`8.0`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.1`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.2`
vmware	player	`4.0`
vmware	player	`4.0.1`
vmware	player	`4.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`4.0`
vmware	fusion	`4.0.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`4.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.1.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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