Out-of-bounds read in Broadcom products - CVE-2018-6967

 

Out-of-bounds read in Broadcom products - CVE-2018-6967

Published: June 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13519
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6967
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information or cause DoS condition.

The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read in the shader translator. A remote attacker can gain access to arbitrary data or cause the application to crash.

Affected software

VMware ESXi
VMware Fusion
VMware Workstation

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6967

Update VMware Fusion to version 10.1.2.
Update VMware Workstation to version 14.1.2.

VMware Fusion - update to 10.1.2
VMware Workstation - update to 14.1.2

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