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Rewterz Threat Advisory – VMware ESXi / Workstation Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

1) An error related to the virtual USB 1.1 UHCI (Universal Host Controller Interface) can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds memory access.

2) A race condition error related to the virtual USB 1.1 UHCI (Universal Host Controller Interface) can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities #1 and #2 may allow execution of code on the host but requires virtual machine with a virtual USB controller present.

Impact

Security Bypass

Affected Vendors

VMware

Affected Products

VMware Workstation Player 14.xVMware ESXi 6.x

Remediation

Apply patch or update to a fixed version.

VMware ESXi version 6.0:

Apply ESXi600-201903001.

VMware ESXi version 6.5:

Apply ESXi650-201903001.

VMware ESXi version 6.7:

Apply ESXi670-201903001.

VMware Workstation Player:

Update to version 14.1.7.