CVE-2012-1508: VMware Esx

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XPDM display driver in VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0; VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1; and VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware ESXi: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only
• VMware View: up to and including 4.6.0

Published 2012-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.