PT-2015-4033 · Vmware · Vmware Player+3

Published 2015-01-29 · Updated 2017-09-08 · CVE-2014-8370

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Workstation versions 10.x through 10.0.4 VMware Player versions 6.x through 6.0.4 VMware Fusion versions 6.x through 6.0.4 VMware ESXi versions 5.0 through 5.5

Description The issue allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service by modifying a configuration file, potentially leading to arbitrary write to a file.

Recommendations For VMware Workstation versions 10.x through 10.0.4, update to version 10.0.5 or later. For VMware Player versions 6.x through 6.0.4, update to version 6.0.5 or later. For VMware Fusion versions 6.x through 6.0.4, update to version 6.0.5 or later. For VMware ESXi versions 5.0 through 5.5, update to a version later than 5.5.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8370

Affected Products

Vmware Esxi

Vmware Fusion

Vmware Player

Vmware Workstation

References · 12

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8370 · Security Note
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62669 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62605 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62551 · Note
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88252465/index.html · Note
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000007 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/72338 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031642 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8370 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031643 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100933 · Note