vulnerability
VMSA-2018-0018: VMware Horizon View Agent, VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates resolve multiple security issues (CVE-2018-6972)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jul 25, 2018 | Aug 7, 2018 | Oct 7, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 25, 2018
Added
Aug 7, 2018
Modified
Oct 7, 2025
Description
VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.
Solutions
vmware-esxi55-upgrade-8934887vmware-esxi60-upgrade-8934903vmware-esxi65-upgrade-8935087vmware-esxi67-upgrade-8941472
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