CVE-2018-6972

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@vmware.com

Published

2018-07-25

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Esxi (Vmware)
• Fusion (Vmware)
• Workstation (Vmware)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html