vulnerability

VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0008) (CVE-2018-6957)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2018
Added
Mar 16, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled.

Solution

vmware-workstation-upgrade-14_1_1
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