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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0014) (CVE-2019-5535)

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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0014) (CVE-2019-5535)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/08/2019
Created
10/09/2019
Added
10/08/2019
Modified
10/21/2019

Description

VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a network denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper handling of certain IPv6 packets. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 4.7.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-15_5_0

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