CVE-2008-2098

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-2098 · Published 02/06/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2098 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting ace 2 (vmware), fusion (vmware), vmware player 2 (vmware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.46%, higher than 40.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ace 2 vmware	`= 2.0= 2.01`	No fix yet
fusion vmware	`= 1.1= 1.1.1`	No fix yet
vmware player 2 vmware	`= 2.0= 2.01= 2.02= 2.03`	No fix yet
vmware workstation vmware	`= 6.0.1= 6.0.2= 6.03`	No fix yet
workstation vmware	`= 6.0`	No fix yet

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 6 before 6.0.4 build 93057, VMware Player 2 before 2.0.4 build 93057, VMware ACE 2 before 2.0.2 build 93057, and VMware Fusion before 1.1.2 build 87978, when folder sharing is used, allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

References

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