VMSA-2018-0008

Workstation and Fusion updates address a denial-of-service vulnerability

1. Summary

Workstation and Fusion updates address a denial-of-service vulnerability

2. Relevant Products

• VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)
• VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion)

3. Problem Description

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.

4. Solution

Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.

VMware Workstation Pro 14.1.1

Downloads and Documentation:  

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation  

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ws_pubs.html  

VMware Workstation Player 14.1.1

Downloads and Documentation:  

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer  

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/player_pubs.html

VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion 10.1.1
Downloads and Documentation:  
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion  
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/fusion_pubs.html
  

5. References
 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6957

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52934

6. Change log

2018-03-15 VMSA-2018-0008

Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of VMware Workstation and Fusion Workaround KB on 2018-03-15.

7. Contact

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This Security Advisory is posted to the following lists:

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  bugtraq@securityfocus.com

  fulldisclosure@seclists.org

E-mail: security@vmware.com

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https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1055

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