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VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2020-3981 (VMSA-2020-0023)

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VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2020-3981 (VMSA-2020-0023)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/20/2020
Created
08/29/2022
Added
07/25/2022
Modified
07/25/2022

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-vcenter-server-upgrade-latest

References

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