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VMware Fusion: Fusion stack overflow via authenticated VNC session (VMSA-2017-0021) (CVE-2017-4941)

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VMware Fusion: Fusion stack overflow via authenticated VNC session (VMSA-2017-0021) (CVE-2017-4941)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/02/2018
Modified
01/31/2022

Description

VMware ESXi (6.0 before ESXi600-201711101-SG, 5.5 ESXi550-201709101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8), and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated VNC session to cause a stack overflow via a specific set of VNC packets. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution in a virtual machine via the authenticated VNC session. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible in ESXi, VNC must be manually enabled in a virtual machine's .vmx configuration file. In addition, ESXi must be configured to allow VNC traffic through the built-in firewall.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-8_5_9

References

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