CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7080

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-12-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

The graphic acceleration functions in VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.0.9 on OS X allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7079.

Affected configurations

• vmware tools (<= 10.0.8) • vmware tools 10.0.0 • vmware tools 10.0.5 • vmware tools 10.0.6 • vmware tools 9.0.0 • vmware tools 9.0.1 • vmware tools 9.0.5 • vmware tools 9.0.10 • vmware tools 9.0.11 • vmware tools 9.0.12 • vmware tools 9.0.13 • vmware tools 9.0.15 • vmware tools 9.0.16 • vmware tools 9.0.17 • vmware tools 9.4.0 • vmware tools 9.4.5 • vmware tools 9.4.10 • vmware tools 9.4.11 • vmware tools 9.4.12 • vmware tools 9.4.15 • vmware tools 9.10.0 • vmware tools 9.10.1 • vmware tools 9.10.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References