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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2015-0001) (CVE-2014-8370)

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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2015-0001) (CVE-2014-8370)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/28/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/28/2015
Modified
10/15/2015

Description

VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.5, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.5, VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.5, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5 allow host OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (arbitrary write to a file) by modifying a configuration file.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-6_0_5

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