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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0016) (CVE-2018-6965)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0016) (CVE-2018-6965)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/03/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the shader translator. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-6966 and CVE-2018-6967.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-10_1_2

References

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