CVE-2017-4938: Null Pointer Dereference

First published: Fri Nov 17 2017(Updated: )

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a guest RPC NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Credit: security@vmware.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
VMware Workstation	=12.0.0
VMware Workstation	=12.0.1
VMware Workstation	=12.1
VMware Workstation	=12.1.1
VMware Workstation	=12.5
VMware Workstation	=12.5.1
VMware Workstation	=12.5.2
VMware Workstation	=12.5.3
VMware Workstation	=12.5.4
VMware Workstation	=12.5.5
VMware Workstation	=12.5.6
VMware Workstation	=12.5.7
VMware Fusion	=8.0.0
VMware Fusion	=8.0.1
VMware Fusion	=8.0.2
VMware Fusion	=8.1.0
VMware Fusion	=8.1.1
VMware Fusion	=8.5.0
VMware Fusion	=8.5.1
VMware Fusion	=8.5.2
VMware Fusion	=8.5.3
VMware Fusion	=8.5.4
VMware Fusion	=8.5.5
VMware Fusion	=8.5.6
VMware Fusion	=8.5.7
VMware Fusion	=8.5.8

Remedy

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0018.html

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