CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7461

8.8 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])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The drag-and-drop (aka DnD) function in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 8.x before 8.5.2 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access on the host OS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion 8.0.0 • vmware fusion 8.0.1 • vmware fusion 8.0.2 • vmware fusion 8.1.0 • vmware fusion 8.1.1 • vmware fusion 8.5.0 • vmware fusion 8.5.1 • vmware fusion pro 8.0.0 • vmware fusion pro 8.0.1 • vmware fusion pro 8.0.2 • vmware fusion pro 8.1.0 • vmware fusion pro 8.1.1 • vmware fusion pro 8.5.0 • vmware fusion pro 8.5.1 • 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 player 12.5.0 • vmware workstation player 12.5.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.5.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.5.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References