CVE-2012-3289
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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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
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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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | workstation | 8.0 | |
| vmware | workstation | 8.0.1 | |
| vmware | workstation | 8.0.2 | |
| vmware | workstation | 8.0.3 | |
| vmware | player | 4.0 | |
| vmware | player | 4.0.1 | |
| vmware | player | 4.0.2 | |
| vmware | player | 4.0.3 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-94
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.