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VMSA-2017-0015: ESXi, Workstation, Fusion NULL pointer deference vulnerability (CVE-2017-4925)

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VMSA-2017-0015: ESXi, Workstation, Fusion NULL pointer deference vulnerability (CVE-2017-4925)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/05/2017
Modified
12/01/2017

Description

VMware ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201707101-SG, ESXi 6.0 without patch ESXi600-201706101-SG, ESXi 5.5 without patch ESXi550-201709101-SG, Workstation (12.x before 12.5.3), Fusion (8.x before 8.5.4) contain a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. This issue occurs when handling guest RPC requests. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi55-upgrade-6480267
  • vmware-esxi60-upgrade-5485776
  • vmware-esxi65-upgrade-5969300

References

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