KLA11258
Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation and Fusion

Updated: 09/21/2023
Detect date
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05/21/2018
Severity
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Warning
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.

Technical details

Vulnerability (2) affects only VMware Fusion.

Affected products

VMware Workstation earlier than 14.1.2
VMware Fusion earlier than 10.1.2

Solution

Update to latest version
Download VMware Fusion
Download Workstation

Original advisories

VMSA-2018-0013
VMSA-2018-0012

Impacts
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OSI 
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DoS 
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SB 
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PE 
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Related products
VMware Workstation
VMware Fusion
CVE-IDS
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CVE-2018-69627.2High
CVE-2018-69632.1Warning
CVE-2018-36392.1Warning
Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

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