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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0015) (CVE-2020-3971)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0015) (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-fusion-upgrade-11_0_2

References

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