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VMSA-2018-0012: VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates enable Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for Speculative Store Bypass issue (CVE-2018-3639)

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VMSA-2018-0012: VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates enable Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for Speculative Store Bypass issue (CVE-2018-3639)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/22/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/02/2018
Modified
04/16/2021

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi55-upgrade-8934887
  • vmware-esxi60-upgrade-8934903
  • vmware-esxi65-upgrade-8935087
  • vmware-esxi67-upgrade-8941472

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