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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0006) (CVE-2019-5516)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0006) (CVE-2019-5516)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/15/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/15/2019
Modified
04/18/2019

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3 and 14.x before 14.1.6), Fusion (11.x before 11.0.3 and 10.x before 10.1.6) updates address an out-of-bounds vulnerability with the vertex shader functionality. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to have access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM. The workaround for this issue involves disabling the 3D-acceleration feature. This feature is not enabled by default on ESXi and is enabled by default on Workstation and Fusion.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-14_1_6
  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-15_0_3

References

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