CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4938

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-11-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a guest RPC NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation 12.0.0 • vmware workstation 12.0.1 • vmware workstation 12.1 • vmware workstation 12.1.1 • vmware workstation 12.5 • vmware workstation 12.5.1 • vmware workstation 12.5.2 • vmware workstation 12.5.3 • vmware workstation 12.5.4 • vmware workstation 12.5.5 • vmware workstation 12.5.6 • vmware workstation 12.5.7 • 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 8.5.2 • vmware fusion 8.5.3 • vmware fusion 8.5.4 • vmware fusion 8.5.5 • vmware fusion 8.5.6 • vmware fusion 8.5.7 • vmware fusion 8.5.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References