CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7083

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:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.0 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.0 on Windows, when Cortado ThinPrint virtual printing is enabled, allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) via TrueType fonts embedded in EMFSPOOL.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation player 12.0.0 • vmware workstation player 12.0.1 • vmware workstation player 12.1.0 • vmware workstation player 12.1.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References