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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0015) (CVE-2017-4924)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0015) (CVE-2017-4924)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/18/2017
Modified
12/01/2017

Description

VMware ESXi (ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201707101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.7) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.8) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-8_5_8

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