Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review - 2018

Introduction Cisco Talos' Vulnerability Discovery Team investigates software and operating system vulnerabilities in order to discover them before malicious threat actors. We provide this information to vendors so that they can create patches and protect their customers as soon as possible. We...

ESXi 6.0 / 6.5 / 6.7 Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0026) (Remote Check)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 6.0, 6.5, or 6.7 and is missing a security patch. It is, therefore, vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA devices. An attacker with access to a guest system may be able to execute code on the host system by leveraging this vulnerability. ...

VMware Workstation 14.x < 14.1.3 Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0026)

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote Windows host is 14.x prior to 14.1.3. It is, therefore, affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA devices. An attacker with access to a guest system may be able to execute code on the host system by leveraging this...

VMware Workstation 14.x < 14.1.3 Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0026) (Linux)

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote Linux host is 14.x prior to 14.1.3. It is, therefore, affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA devices. An attacker with access to a guest system may be able to execute code on the host system by leveraging this vulnerabilit...

VMware Fusion 10.x < 10.1.3 Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0026) (macOS)

The version of VMware Fusion installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is 10.x prior to 10.1.3. It is, therefore, affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA devices. An attacker with access to a guest system may be able to execute code on the host system by leveraging this...

How and when to upgrade VMWare tools

Issue The objective is to upgrade VMware Tools after an ESX host upgrade, make the change in the OS Layer and create a new View Agent app layer...

VMSA-2018-0026 : VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address an out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA Device VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host. VMware would like to thank Anonymous working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for reporti...

Web Testing Framework Samurai

The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a virtual machine, supported on VirtualBox and VMWare, that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The VM contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this...

Photon OS 2.0: Patch PHSA-2018-2.0-0102 (deprecated)

An update of 'patch' packages of Photon OS has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2018-2.0-0102. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

Consistent backup failures after installing vSphere 6.7 U1

Challenge After updating vCenter to 6.7U1, processing of all VMs fails with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." Cause The issue is triggered by an update to the vSphere API version in vCenter 6.7 U1. Solution The issue affects only Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a...

VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion are all products of VMware, Inc. VMware ESXi is a server virtualization platform that can be installed directly on physical servers; VMware Workstation is a suite of virtual machine software; and Fusion is a suite of virtual machine software that is designed t...

CVE-2018-6974

CVE-2018-6974 describes an out-of-bounds read in the SVGA device affecting VMware ESXi (various older builds), VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.3), and VMware Fusion (10.x before 10.1.3). The issue could allow a guest to execute code on the host due to SVGA parsing/reading flaws. Affected pro...

CVE-2018-6974

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201810101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201808401-BG, and 6.0 before ESXi600-201808401-BG, Workstation 14.x before 14.1.3 and Fusion 10.x before 10.1.3 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host...

CVE-2018-6974

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201810101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201808401-BG, and 6.0 before ESXi600-201808401-BG, Workstation 14.x before 14.1.3 and Fusion 10.x before 10.1.3 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host...

CVE-2018-6974

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201810101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201808401-BG, and 6.0 before ESXi600-201808401-BG, Workstation 14.x before 14.1.3 and Fusion 10.x before 10.1.3 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host...

Out-of-bounds

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201810101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201808401-BG, and 6.0 before ESXi600-201808401-BG, Workstation 14.x before 14.1.3 and Fusion 10.x before 10.1.3 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address a vulnerability in ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0026 and apply the necessary...

VMware Workstation SVGA Heap-based Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of VMware Workstation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling ...

VMSA-2018-0026:VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address an out-of-bounds read vulnerability

VMSA-2018-0026 VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address an out-of-bounds read vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0026 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion...

VMware AirWatch Console 9.1.x < 9.1.5.6 / 9.2.x < 9.2.3.27 / 9.3.x < 9.3.0.25 / 9.4.x < 9.4.0.22 / 9.5.x < 9.5.0.16 / 9.6.x < 9.6.0.7 / 9.7.x < 9.7.0.3 SAML Security Bypass

According to its self-reported version, the install of VMware AirWatch Console running on the remote host is 9.1.x prior to 9.1.5.6, 9.2.x prior to 9.2.3.27, 9.3.x prior to 9.3.0.25, 9.4.x prior to 9.4.0.22, 9.5.x prior to 9.5.0.16, 9.6.x prior to 9.6.0.7, or 9.7.x prior to 9.7.0.3. It is,...