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VMware Workstation VMSA-2017-0008.2 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
VMware Workstation updates resolve multiple security vulnerabilities (Windows)
Insight
Insight
Multiple flaws are due to multiple heap buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in JPEG2000 and TrueType Font (TTF) parsers in the TPView.dll. Also there exists a DLL loading vulnerability that occurs due to the 'vmware-vmx' process loading DLLs from a path defined in the local environment-variable. Also a security vulnerability and a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exist in the SVGA driver.
Affected Software
Affected Software
VMware Workstation 12.x versions prior to 12.5.3.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to Workstation 12.5.3.