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

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