cve/2012/CVE-2012-1516.md

### [CVE-2012-1516](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1516)
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### Description

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and ESX 3.5 through 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving data pointers.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.