vulnerability

VMware Workstation: Branch Target Injection (VMSA-2018-0002) (CVE-2017-5715)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 4, 2018
Added
Jan 4, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

Solution

vmware-workstation-upgrade-12_5_8
Title
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