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

[Steve Shockley <steve.shockley () shockley net>]

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.