cve-2017-4933
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-20 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:51
Severity ?
Summary
VMware ESXi (6.5 before ESXi650-201710401-BG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8), and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated VNC session to cause a heap overflow via a specific set of VNC packets resulting in heap corruption. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution in a virtual machine via the authenticated VNC session. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible in ESXi, VNC must be manually enabled in a virtual machine's .vmx configuration file. In addition, ESXi must be configured to allow VNC traffic through the built-in firewall.
References
security@vmware.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040024Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@vmware.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040025Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@vmware.comhttps://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0021.htmlIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
VMwareESXi
VMwareWorkstation
VMwareFusion
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