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VMware VMware Tools: CVE-2019-5522: VMware Tools for Windows out of bounds read vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 6, 2019
Added
Jun 3, 2025
Modified
May 18, 2026

Description

VMware Tools for Windows update addresses an out of bounds read vulnerability in vm3dmp driver which is installed with vmtools in Windows guest machines. This issue is present in versions 10.2.x and 10.3.x prior to 10.3.10. A local attacker with non-administrative access to a Windows guest with VMware Tools for Windows installed may be able to leak kernel information or create a denial of service attack on the same Windows guest machine.

Solution

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest
Title
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