vulnerability

VMware Player: VMware Workstation installer DLL hijacking issue (VMSA-2016-0014) (CVE-2016-7085)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 24, 2016
Added
Oct 24, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Workstation installer contains a DLL hijacking issue that exists due to some DLL files loaded by the application improperly. This issue may allow an attacker to load a DLL file of the attacker's choosing that could execute arbitrary code.

Solution

vmware-player-upgrade-12_5_0
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