KLA11215 DoS vulnerability in VMware Products

An unspecified vulnerability was found in VMware Workstation, Player and Fusion. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a opening a large number of VNC sessions.

Original advisories

VMSA-2018-0008

Related products

VMware-Workstation

VMware-Player

VMware-Fusion

CVE list

CVE-2018-6957 warning

Solution

Update to the latest versionDownload Workstation PlayerDownload Workstation

Download VMware Fusion

Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• VMware Workstation Pro earlier than 14.1.1VMware Workstation Player earlier than 14.1.1VMware Fusion earlier than 14.1.1