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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0005) (CVE-2019-5524)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0005) (CVE-2019-5524)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/29/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
03/29/2019
Modified
04/05/2019

Description

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.6) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.6) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the e1000 virtual network adapter. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-10_1_6

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