VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workstation | Vmware | 14.0 (including) | 14.1.2 (excluding) |
Potential Mitigations
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html