Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation and Player

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VMware Workstation and Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A denial of service vulnerability can be exploited via special crafted packet to cause denial of service.
2. A use after free vulnerability can be exploited locally to execute arbitrary code.

Original advisories

• VMSA-2019-0014

Related products

• VMware-Workstation
• VMware-Player

CVE list

• CVE-2019-5535
  warning
• CVE-2019-5527
  critical

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