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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2015-0004) (CVE-2015-2336)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2015-0004) (CVE-2015-2336)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/09/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2015
Modified
12/05/2016

Description

TPView.dll in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.6 and 11.x before 11.1.1, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.6 and 7.x before 7.1.1, and VMware Horizon Client 3.2.x before 3.2.1, 3.3.x, and 5.x local-mode before 5.4.2 on Windows does not properly allocate memory, which allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0897.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-10_0_5

References

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