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VMware Fusion: VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0005) (CVE-2017-4901)

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VMware Fusion: VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0005) (CVE-2017-4901)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/15/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The drag-and-drop (DnD) function in VMware Workstation 12.x before version 12.5.4 and Fusion 8.x before version 8.5.5 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability. This may allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs Workstation or Fusion.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-8_5_5

References

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