vulnerability

VMware Workstation: 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
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Mar 15, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

The drag-and-drop (DnD) function in VMware Workstation and Fusion 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

vmware-workstation-upgrade-12_5_4
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