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VMSA-2020-0015: Off-by-one heap-overflow vulnerability in SVGA device (CVE-2020-3969)

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VMSA-2020-0015: Off-by-one heap-overflow vulnerability in SVGA device (CVE-2020-3969)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/24/2020
Created
06/27/2020
Added
06/26/2020
Modified
07/06/2020

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an off-by-one heap-overflow vulnerability in the SVGA device. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled may be able to exploit this vulnerability to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. Additional conditions beyond the attacker's control must be present for exploitation to be possible.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi65-upgrade-16207673
  • vmware-esxi67-upgrade-16316930
  • vmware-esxi70-upgrade-16324942

References

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