medium
6.5
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2019-5536

First published: Mon Oct 28 2019(Updated: )

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201908101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201910401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.0) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.0) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM. Exploitation of this issue require an attacker to have access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled. It is not enabled by default on ESXi and is enabled by default on Workstation and Fusion.

Credit: security@vmware.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
VMware Fusion>=11.0.0<11.5.0
VMware Workstation>=15.0.0<15.5.0
VMware ESXi=6.5
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201701001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201703001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201703002
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201704001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707101
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707102
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707103
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707201
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707202
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707203
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707204
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707205
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707206
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707207
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707208
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707209
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707210
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707211
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707212
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707213
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707214
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707215
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707216
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707217
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707218
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707219
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707220
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201707221
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201710001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201712001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201803001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201806001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201808001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201810001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201810002
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201811001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201811002
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201811301
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201901001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201903001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201905001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201908001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-201910001
VMware ESXi=6.5-650-20191004001
VMware ESXi=6.7
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201806001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201807001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201808001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810101
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810102
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810103
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810201
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810202
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810203
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810204
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810205
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810206
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810207
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810208
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810209
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810210
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810211
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810212
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810213
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810214
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810215
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810216
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810217
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810218
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810219
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810220
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810221
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810222
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810223
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810224
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810225
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810226
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810227
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810228
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810229
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810230
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810231
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810232
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810233
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201810234
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201811001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201901001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201901401
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201901402
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201901403
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201903001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904201
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904202
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904203
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904204
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904205
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904206
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904207
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904208
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904209
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904210
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904211
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904212
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904213
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904214
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904215
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904216
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904217
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904218
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904219
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904220
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904221
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904222
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904223
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904224
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904225
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904226
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904227
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904228
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201904229
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201905001
VMware ESXi=6.7-670-201906002

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