Sunday, October 21, 2018

VMware Updates Available

VMware has released security updates to patch an out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2018-6974) in their virtualization applications. The vulnerability may allow a guest to execute arbitrary code on the host.

Affected versions:
- VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201810101-SG patch
- VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201808401-BG patch
- VMware ESXi 6.0 without ESXi600-201808401-BG patch
- VMware Workstation Pro / Player 14.x versions earlier than 14.1.3
- VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion 10.x versions earlier than 10.1.3

Further information including updating instructions can be read from VMware's security advisory.

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