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CVE-2018-6969

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CVE-2018-6969

Published: Jul 13, 2018

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

VendorProductVersions

VMware

VMware Tools

affected
10.x and prior before 10.3.0

References

1041291
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
104737
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID

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