CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-04-13 | Disagree?

This section lists the latest news and blogs found via the daylife API (and for older items, the technorati API), which mention or otherwise discuss this vulnerability.

2009/06/05 04:57:23 | Hacking Tool Lets A VM Break Out And Attack Its Host

from: PC Sympathy

Researchers for some time have demonstrated the possibility of one of virtualization’s worst nightmares — a guest virtual machine (VM) ... Kostya Kortchinsky to exploit a VMWare vulnerability (CVE-2009-1244) in the VMware Workstation

2009/04/19 16:42:09 | Updated VMware Hosted Products and ESX/ESXi Patches Fix Critical Security Vulnerability

from: VM /ETC

I am a little late relaying this important security vulnerability found in basically all VMware products ... Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2009-1244 to this issue

2009/04/11 00:26:09 | VMWare Releases CRITICAL Security Announcement

from: Infosecurity.US

VMWare INC. (NYSE: VMW ) has announced the availability of a critical security update for hosted products and othe company’s ESX and ESXi  products. Specifically targeting the already reported MITRE CVE enumerated vulnerability CVE-2009-1244 ... ) CVE numbers:       CVE-2009-1244 - ———————————————————————— 1. Summary Updated VMware Hosted

2009/04/10 20:21:31 | VMware Fusion 2.0.4 Update Now Available

from: Team Fusion

"2.0.4 already?", you ask. That's right, we are releasing VMware Fusion 2.0.4 today to address a critical security issue ... and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2009-1244 to this issue.You can read

2009/04/10 16:22:00 | [Full-disclosure] VMSA-2009-0006 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security vulnerability

from: Full-Disclosure digest, knowledge base

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VMware ... : CVE-2009-1244 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Summary ... Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ( cve.mitre.org ) has assigned the name CVE-2009-1244

2009/04/15 20:17:11 | VM Escape

from: downgrade.org

Whenever anyone speaks of virtual machine security the absolute worst case scenario is the dreaded “VM Escape” ... , but are very rare. On April 10th CVE-2009-1244 was released stating that a number of VMWare products

2009/04/11 08:39:43 | Security updates for ESX 3.x

from: Yellow Bricks

Just a quick note that I wanted to get out… A security patch has been released ... and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2009-1244 to this issue. This post