CVE-2012-3289

high
Published 2012-06-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.4, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.4, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via crafted traffic from a remote virtual device.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0011.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmwareworkstation8.0
vmwareworkstation8.0.1
vmwareworkstation8.0.2
vmwareworkstation8.0.3
vmwareplayer4.0
vmwareplayer4.0.1
vmwareplayer4.0.2
vmwareplayer4.0.3

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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