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Vigil@nce - VMware WorkStation, Player: NULL pointer dereference via vmx86.sys
April 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can dereference a NULL pointer in vmx86.sys of VMware
WorkStation or Player, in order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: VMware Player, VMware Workstation
Severity: 1/4
Creation date: 11/04/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The VMware WorkStation and Player products install the vmx86.sys
driver.
However, it does not check if a pointer is NULL, before using it.
An attacker can therefore dereference a NULL pointer in vmx86.sys
of VMware WorkStation or Player, in order to trigger a denial of
service.
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