CVE-2008-1340: VMware Ace

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3, and VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via crafted VMCI calls that trigger "memory exhaustion and memory corruption."

Affected products

• VMware Ace: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only
• VMware Player: version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; …
• VMware Server: version 1.0.3 only
• VMware VMware Server: version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.4 only
• VMware VMware Workstation: version 5.5.5 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only
• VMware Workstation: version 5.5 only; version 5.5.3_build_34685 only; version 5.5.3_build_42958 only; version 5.5.4 only; version 5.5.4_build_44386 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2008-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.