Name: CVE-2018-6972: NULL Pointer Dereference
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-6972, CWE-476, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.0296

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Vmsa 2018 0018	—	Upgrade VMware ESXi 5.5 to build number 8934887Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.5 to build number 8935087Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.7 to build number 8941472Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 to build number 8934903	Aug 7, 2018	Jul 25, 2018

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CVSS Details

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