vulnerability

VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0004) (CVE-2017-5715)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 4, 2018
Added
Jan 12, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solutions

vmware-fusion-upgrade-10_1_1vmware-fusion-upgrade-8_5_10
Title
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