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VMware Fusion: Potential information leak via hosted networking stack (VMSA-2010-0007) (CVE-2010-1138)

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VMware Fusion: Potential information leak via hosted networking stack (VMSA-2010-0007) (CVE-2010-1138)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/12/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/18/2014
Modified
06/03/2016

Description

The virtual networking stack in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600, VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459 on Windows, VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600, VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459 on Windows, VMware ACE 2.6 before 2.6.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, VMware Server 2.x, and VMware Fusion 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 232708 and 2.x before 2.0.7 build 246742 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from memory on the host OS by examining received network packets, related to interaction between the guest OS and the host vmware-vmx process.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-2_0_7
  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-3_0_1

References

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