Kaspersky ID:
KLA11175
Detect Date:
01/04/2018
Updated:
01/28/2026

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware Products. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service and execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in TPView.dll can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service;
  2. A guest access control vulnerability in VMware Tools can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2017-4945
    high
  • CVE-2017-4948
    high
  • CVE-2017-4946
    critical

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