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VMware Player: VMware Workstation and Fusion out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability (VMSA-2016-0019) (CVE-2016-7461)

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VMware Player: VMware Workstation and Fusion out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability (VMSA-2016-0019) (CVE-2016-7461)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/15/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/15/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The drag-and-drop (aka DnD) function in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 8.x before 8.5.2 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access on the host OS) via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-12_5_2

References

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