CVE-2013-3519 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-3519?

CVE-2013-3519 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Esx, published on 4 Dec 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

lgtosync.sys in VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3, VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3, VMware Fusion 5.x before 5.0.4, VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1, when a 32-bit Windows guest OS is used, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via an application that performs a crafted memory allocation.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3519?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Vmware Esx, Vmware Esxi, Vmware Fusion, Vmware Player, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2013-3519?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-3519 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-3519 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3519 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esx

• CVE-2013-1405 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-1516 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2013-3658 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.4
• CVE-2012-3288 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2008-4281 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.3

All Vmware Esx vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8xv9-xcpm-7f4g.