Workstation and Fusion updates address a denial-of-service vulnerability

Denial-of-service vulnerability through VNC

VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions.

Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled.

VMware would like to thank Lilith Wyatt of Cisco Talos for reporting this issue to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6957 to this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.