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VMSA-2020-0015: Heap overflow vulnerability in vmxnet3 (CVE-2020-3971)

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VMSA-2020-0015: Heap overflow vulnerability in vmxnet3 (CVE-2020-3971)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/26/2020
Created
06/27/2020
Added
06/26/2020
Modified
07/06/2020

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201907101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.0.2) contain a heap overflow vulnerability in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with a vmxnet3 network adapter present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.

Solution(s)

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

References

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