CVE-2011-1785
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
VMware ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 and ESX 4.0 and 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket exhaustion) via unspecified network traffic.
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035108
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000133.html
- http://osvdb.org/72118
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8240
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025452
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517739/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47627
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0007.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67195
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13242
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035108
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000133.html
- http://osvdb.org/72118
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8240
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025452
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517739/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47627
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0007.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67195
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13242
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.