Out-of-bounds read in VMware Workstation and VMware Horizon - CVE-2017-4936

 

Out-of-bounds read in VMware Workstation and VMware Horizon - CVE-2017-4936

Published: November 20, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9357
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-4936
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: VMware, Inc
Affected software:
VMware Workstation
VMware Horizon

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condtition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds memory read error in JPEG2000 parser in the TPView.dll. An adjacent attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-4936

Update Workstation to version 12.5.8.
Update Horizon View Client for Windows to version 4.6.1.

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