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VMSA-2020-0011: VMware ESXi contains a memory leak vulnerability in the VMCI module (CVE-2020-3958)

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VMSA-2020-0011: VMware ESXi contains a memory leak vulnerability in the VMCI module (CVE-2020-3958)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/29/2020
Created
06/10/2020
Added
06/09/2020
Modified
06/09/2020

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2) and VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with non-administrative access to a virtual machine to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi65-upgrade-16207673
  • vmware-esxi67-upgrade-16075168

References

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