Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | - Workstation and Fusion updates address a denial-of-service vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | VMSA-2018-0008 | First vendor Publication | 2018-03-15 |
Vendor | VMware | Last vendor Modification | 2018-03-15 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 3.5 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 6.8 | Authentication | Requires single instance |
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Detail
Denial-of-service vulnerability through VNC VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled. VMware would like to thank Lilith Wyatt of Cisco Talos for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6957 to this issue. Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available. |
Original Source
Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0008.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-772 | Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2018-11-16 | Name : A virtualisation application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host i... File : macosx_fusion_vmsa_2018_0008.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
Date | Informations |
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2018-04-16 00:21:08 |
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2018-03-16 00:21:01 |
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2018-03-15 21:19:38 |
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