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Re: VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2



On 12/3/2008 12:24 AM, VMware Security team wrote:
     A memory corruption condition may occur in the virtual machine
     hardware. A malicious request sent from the guest operating
     system to the virtual hardware may cause the virtual hardware to
     write to uncontrolled physical memory.

So, does this vuln potentially allow a guest -> host escalation? "Memory corruption" is kind of vague.