CVE-2018-6972

Published Jul 25, 2018 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 3.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18716 VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
vmware
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 11:06 PM
Reserved
Feb 14, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 25, 2018, 1:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:02 AM