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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2016-0017) (CVE-2016-5329)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2016-0017) (CVE-2016-5329)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/26/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

VMware Fusion 8.x before 8.5 on OS X, when System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, allows local users to determine kernel memory addresses and bypass the kASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-8_5_0

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