Executive Summary

Summary
Title - VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability
Informations
Name VMSA-2017-0005 First vendor Publication 2017-03-14
Vendor VMware Last vendor Modification 2017-03-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

a. VMware Workstation and Fusion out-of-bounds memory access

The drag-and-drop (DnD) function in VMware Workstation and Fusion has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability. This may allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs Workstation or Fusion.

Workaround On Workstation Pro and Fusion, the issue cannot be exploited if both the drag-and-drop function and the copy-and-paste (C&P) function are disabled. Refer to the Reference section on documentation how to disable these functions. This workaround is not available on Workstation Player.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4901 to this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

Original Source

Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0005.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 10
Application 8

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-03-27 Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote Linux host is affected b...
File : vmware_player_linux_vmsa_2017_0005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote Windows host is affected...
File : vmware_player_win_vmsa_2017_0005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-24 Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host i...
File : macosx_fusion_vmsa_2017_0005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-24 Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote Linux host is affected b...
File : vmware_workstation_linux_vmsa_2017_0005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-24 Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote Windows host is affected...
File : vmware_workstation_win_vmsa_2017_0005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-16 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-06-12 21:25:17
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-08 17:24:56
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-28 13:25:26
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-25 13:25:20
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-14 13:25:29
  • First insertion