Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-4914 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in VMWare ESX and Esxi

047910
CVSS 4.7 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
vmware
nessus
NVD
Published: 2009-02-03
Updated: 2017-09-29

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200901401-I-SG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200901401-SG allows local administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a snapshot with a malformed VMDK delta disk.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Vmware
2

Nessus

NASL familyVMware ESX Local Security Checks
NASL idVMWARE_VMSA-2009-0001.NASL
descriptiona. Loading a corrupt delta disk may cause ESX to crash If the VMDK delta disk of a snapshot is corrupt, an ESX host might crash when the corrupted disk is loaded. VMDK delta files exist for virtual machines with one or more snapshots. This change ensures that a corrupt VMDK delta file cannot be used to crash ESX hosts. A corrupt VMDK delta disk, or virtual machine would have to be loaded by an administrator. VMware would like to thank Craig Marshall for reporting this issue. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2008-4914 to this issue. b. Updated Service Console package net-snmp Net-SNMP is an implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP is used by network management systems to monitor hosts. A denial-of-service flaw was found in the way Net-SNMP processes SNMP GETBULK requests. A remote attacker who issued a specially- crafted request could cause the snmpd server to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2008-4309 to this issue. c. Updated Service Console package libxml2 An integer overflow flaw causing a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the libxml2 XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted, malformed XML content, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2008-4226 to this issue. A denial of service flaw was discovered in the libxml2 XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted, malformed XML content, it could cause the application to enter an infinite loop. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2008-4225 to this issue.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id40387
published2009-07-27
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40387
titleVMSA-2009-0001 : ESX patches address an issue loading corrupt virtual disks and update Service Console packages

Oval

accepted2010-05-17T04:00:08.222-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameMichael Wood
    organizationHewlett-Packard
  • nameMichael Wood
    organizationHewlett-Packard
  • nameJ. Daniel Brown
    organizationDTCC
definition_extensions
  • commentVMWare ESX Server 3.0.3 is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:6026
  • commentVMWare ESX Server 3.0.2 is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:5613
  • commentVMware ESX Server 3.5.0 is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:5887
descriptionUnspecified vulnerability in VMware ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200901401-I-SG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200901401-SG allows local administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a snapshot with a malformed VMDK delta disk.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:5909
statusaccepted
submitted2009-09-23T15:39:02.000-04:00
titleVMware ESX Server VMDK Delta Disk Processing Lets Local Administrative Users Deny Service
version5

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