CVE-2018-6972 (GCVE-0-2018-6972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-25 13:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:06
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Summary
VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.
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CWE
  • Denial-of-service vulnerability
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Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Affected: 6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG
Affected: 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG
Affected: 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG
Affected: 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG
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    VMware Workstation Affected: 14.x before 14.1.2
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    VMware Fusion Affected: 10.x before 10.1.2
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