VMware Workstation - 'vprintproxy.exe' TrueType NAME Tables Heap Buffer Overflow (PoC)

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=849 As already discussed in a number of reports in this tracker 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, VMware Workstation current version 12.1.1 build-3770994 ships with a feature called "Virtual Printers", which enables the virtualized...

Flaw in Virtualization Software Could Lead to VM Escapes, Data Theft

Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in an obscure component of many virtualization platforms that they say can allow an attacker to escape from a guest virtual machine and gain code execution on the host, as well as any other VMs operating on that machine. Experts say the bug affects a wid...