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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0009) (CVE-2017-4916)

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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0009) (CVE-2017-4916)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/22/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/23/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-12_5_6

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