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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0022) (CVE-2018-6973)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0022) (CVE-2018-6973)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/15/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/20/2018
Modified
10/16/2018

Description

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.3) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.3) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the e1000 device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-14_1_3

References

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