CVE-2018-6970

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-6970
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-13 21:48:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-15 18:33:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware Horizon 6 (6.x.x before 6.2.7), Horizon 7 (7.x.x before 7.5.1), and Horizon Client (4.x.x and prior before 4.8.1) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Message Framework library. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow a less-privileged user to leak information from a privileged process running on a system where Horizon Connection Server, Horizon Agent or Horizon Client are installed. Note: This issue doesn't apply to Horizon 6, 7 Agents installed on Linux systems or Horizon Clients installed on non-Windows systems.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Horizon Client All All All All
Application Vmware Horizon Client All All All All
Application Vmware Horizon View All All All All
Application Vmware Horizon View All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMware Horizon View Client CVE-2018-6970 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VMware Horizon Out-of-Bounds Memory Read Error in Message Framework Lets Local Users View Portions of System Memory on the Target System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VMSA-2018-0019.1 CONFIRM www.vmware.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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