PT-2016-7343 · Vmware · Vmware Workstation Player+3

Published 2016-12-29 · Updated 2017-07-28 · CVE-2016-7461

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Workstation Pro versions 12.0 through 12.5.1 VMware Workstation Player versions 12.0 through 12.5.1 VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro versions 8.0 through 8.5.1

Description The issue concerns the drag-and-drop function, allowing guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service due to out-of-bounds memory access on the host OS.

Recommendations For VMware Workstation Pro versions 12.0 through 12.5.1, update to version 12.5.2 or later. For VMware Workstation Player versions 12.0 through 12.5.1, update to version 12.5.2 or later. For VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro versions 8.0 through 8.5.1, update to version 8.5.2 or later.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7461

Affected Products

Vmware Fusion

Vmware Fusion Pro

Vmware Workstation

Vmware Workstation Player

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7461 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7461 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0019.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1037282 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94280 · Note