Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | - VMware Tools update addresses an out-of-bounds read vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | VMSA-2018-0017 | First vendor Publication | 2018-07-12 |
Vendor | VMware | Last vendor Modification | 2018-07-12 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 4.4 | Attack Range | Local |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 3.4 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
VMware Tools HGFS out-of-bounds read vulnerability VMware Tools contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on guest VMs. Note: In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled. VMware would like to thank Anurudh for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6969 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-2018-0017.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Alert History
Date | Informations |
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2018-09-11 21:22:23 |
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2018-07-13 17:21:03 |
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2018-07-13 09:18:50 |
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