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VMware Workstation: Use-after-free vulnerability in vmnetdhcp (CVE-2020-3947) (VMSA-2020-0004) (CVE-2020-3947)

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VMware Workstation: Use-after-free vulnerability in vmnetdhcp (CVE-2020-3947) (VMSA-2020-0004) (CVE-2020-3947)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/25/2020
Created
03/26/2020
Added
03/25/2020
Modified
03/27/2020

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a use-after vulnerability in vmnetdhcp. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to code execution on the host from the guest or may allow attackers to create a denial-of-service condition of the vmnetdhcp service running on the host machine.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-15_5_2

References

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