CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6982
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201811401-BG and VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201811301-BG contain uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter which may lead to an information leak from host to guest.
Affected configurations
• vmware workstation (>= 14.0.0 < 14.1.4)
• vmware workstation 15.0.0
• vmware fusion (>= 10.0.0 < 10.1.4)
• vmware fusion 11.0.0
• vmware esxi 6.0
• vmware esxi 6.5
• vmware esxi 6.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105882 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042055 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0027.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105882 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042055 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0027.html Vendor Advisory