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VMSA-2018-0016: ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion multiple out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-6966)

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VMSA-2018-0016: ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion multiple out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-6966)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/09/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/02/2018
Modified
09/06/2018

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-2018-6965 and CVE-2018-6967.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi67-upgrade-8941472

References

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