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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0021) (CVE-2019-5542)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0021) (CVE-2019-5542)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/21/2019
Created
11/23/2019
Added
11/21/2019
Modified
11/25/2019

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.1) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.1) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-15_5_1

References

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