CVE-2018-6966

Summary

CVECVE-2018-6966
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-09 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-02-03 19:48:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the shader translator. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-6965 and CVE-2018-6967.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X - All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X - All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 5.5 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.0 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.5 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.7 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.7 - All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.7 670-201806001 All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 5.5 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.0 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.5 All All All
Operating System Vmware Esxi 6.7 All All All
Application Vmware Fusion All All All All
Application Vmware Fusion All All All All
Application Vmware Workstation All All All All
Application Vmware Workstation All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMware Workstation and Fusion Out-of-Bounds Memory Read Errors Let Local Users Deny Service and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VMSA-2018-0016 CONFIRM www.vmware.com Vendor Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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