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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0005) (CVE-2017-4950)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0005) (CVE-2017-4950)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/12/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/12/2018
Modified
02/14/2018

Description

VMware Workstation and Fusion contain an integer overflow vulnerability in VMware NAT service when IPv6 mode is enabled. This issue may lead to an out-of-bound read which can then be used to execute code on the host in conjunction with other issues. Note: IPv6 mode for VMNAT is not enabled by default.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-12_5_9
  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-14_1_1

References

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