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

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Message-ID: <4936D303.4020500@shockley.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:42:11 -0500
From: Steve Shockley <steve.shockley@...ckley.net>
To: VMware Security team <security@...are.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: 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.