VMSA-2018-0020: VMware vSphere, Workstation, and Fusion updates enable Hypervisor-Specific Mitigations for L1 Terminal Fault - VMM vulnerability (CVE-2018-3646)
5
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
08/14/2018
03/19/2019
08/17/2018
09/04/2018
Description
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.
Solution(s)
- vmware-esxi55-upgrade-9313066
- vmware-esxi60-upgrade-8967301
- vmware-esxi65-upgrade-9298722
- vmware-esxi67-upgrade-9484548
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