CVE-2007-2491 (GCVE-0-2007-2491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-05-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:42
VLAI
Summary
The PIIX4 power management subsystem in EMC VMware Workstation 5.5.3.34685 and VMware Server 1.0.1.29996 allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations via a crafted poke to I/O port 0x1004, triggering a denial of service (virtual machine crash) or other unspecified impact, a related issue to CVE-2007-1337.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf x_refsource_MISC
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1592 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://osvdb.org/40088 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2007-05-01 00:00
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