CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4904

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-06-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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 XHCI controller in VMware ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201703410-SG, 6.0 U3 without patch ESXi600-201703401-SG, 6.0 U2 without patch ESXi600-201703403-SG, 6.0 U1 without patch ESXi600-201703402-SG, and 5.5 without patch ESXi550-201703401-SG; Workstation Pro / Player 12.x prior to 12.5.5; and Fusion Pro / Fusion 8.x prior to 8.5.6 has uninitialized memory usage. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host. The issue is reduced to a Denial of Service of the guest on ESXi 5.5.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion (>= 8.0.0 < 8.5.6) • vmware fusion pro (>= 8.0.0 < 8.5.6) • vmware workstation player (>= 12.0.0 < 12.5.5) • vmware workstation pro (>= 12.0.0 < 12.5.5) • vmware esxi 5.5 • vmware esxi 6.0 • vmware esxi 6.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References