CVE-2008-4916: Emc VMware Player

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.1; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Emc VMware Player: any version
• VMware VMware Ace: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 1.0.7 only; …
• VMware VMware Esx: version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.5 only
• VMware VMware ESXi: version 3.5 only
• VMware VMware Player: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; …
• VMware VMware Server: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• VMware VMware Workstation: version 4.5.3 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.5.2 only; version 5.5.3 only; …

Published 2009-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.