CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6981

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Dec 04, 2018 | Modified: Feb 03, 2022
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201811401-BG and VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201811301-BG, VMware ESXi 6.0 without ESXi600-201811401-BG, VMware Workstation 15, VMware Workstation 14.1.3 or below, VMware Fusion 11, VMware Fusion 10.1.3 or below contain uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter which may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Workstation Vmware 14.0.0 (including) 14.1.4 (excluding)
Workstation Vmware 15.0.0 (including) 15.0.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References