Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware products

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware Workstation Pro and VMware Workstation Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges and cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An insecure library loading vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specially designed ALSA sound driver configuration files to gain privileges (get root privileges in a Linux host machine);
2. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the vstor2 driver can be exploited remotely to gain privileges and cause a denial of service in a Windows host machine.

NB: These vulnerabilities don’t have any public CVSS rating so rating can be changed by the time.

Original advisories

• VMware Security Advisory

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

• VMware-Workstation
• VMware-Player

CVE list

• CVE-2017-4915
  high
• CVE-2017-4916
  high

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