CVE-2008-4914 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2009-02-03

Score: 4.7 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:3.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:3.5:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-4893	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00041.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/33776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33549
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021654
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0001.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0301
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5909

History

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Subscriptions

Vmware Esx Esxi

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-02-03T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:31:28.097Z

Reserved: 2008-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4914

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-02-03T19:30:00.203

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4914

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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