Description
Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware products. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service.
Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:
- A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
- Multiple heap buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in the TPView.dll can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service;
- Multiple out-of-bounds read/write vulnerabilities in the TPView.dll can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service;
- An integer overlow vulnerability in the TPView.dll can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service;
Technical details
Vulnerability (1) exists in VMware Unified Access Gateway and VMware Horizon View.
Vulnerabilities (2),(3) are related to JPEG2000 and TTF (TrueType Font) parsers.
Exploitation of vulnerabilities (2),(3) is possibly only in case of virtual printing being enabled. Note that this product feature is enabled by default on VMware Horizon View and not enabled on VM Workstation products.
Vulnerabilities (2)-(4) exist in VMware Horizon View Client for Windows and VMware Workstation products.
Vulnerability (4) is related to TTF (TrueType Font) parser.
NB: At this moment VMware has just reserved CVE numbers for this vulnerabilities. Information can be changed soon.
Original advisories
Related products
CVE list
- CVE-2017-4913 high
- CVE-2017-4912 high
- CVE-2017-4911 high
- CVE-2017-4910 high
- CVE-2017-4909 high
- CVE-2017-4908 high
- CVE-2017-4907 critical
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