Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation and Fusion

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware Workstation and Fusion. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information, gain privileges and cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A speculative store bypass vulnerability can be exploited locally to obtain sensitive information;
2. A signature bypass vulnerability can be exploited locally to gain privileges;
3. Multiple NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities in the RPC handler can be exploited locally to cause denial of service.

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Technical details

Vulnerability (2) affects only VMware Fusion.

Original advisories

• VMSA-2018-0013

• VMSA-2018-0012

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

• VMware-Workstation
• VMware-Fusion

CVE list

• CVE-2018-6962
  high
• CVE-2018-6963
  warning
• CVE-2018-3639
  warning

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