Vigil@nce - VMware Workstation: two vulnerabilities
July 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of VMware Workstation.
– Impacted products: VMware Workstation.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 19/05/2017.
– Revision date: 22/05/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in VMware Workstation.
A local attacker can make the product load and run arbitrary
library, in order to get administration privileges. [severity:2/4;
CVE-2017-4915]
A local attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced, in
order to trigger a denial of service. [severity:1/4; CVE-2017-4916]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/VMware-Workstation-two-vulnerabilities-22765