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VMSA-2017-0006: ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion uninitialized memory usage (CVE-2017-4905)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 6, 2017
Added
Apr 6, 2017
Modified
Oct 7, 2025

Description

ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion have uninitialized memory usage. This issue may lead to an information leak.

Solutions

vmware-esxi55-upgrade-5230635vmware-esxi60-upgrade-5224934vmware-esxi65-upgrade-5224529
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