CVE-2018-6977

Published Oct 9, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
VMware ESXi (6.7, 6.5, 6.0), Workstation (15.x and 14.x) and Fusion (11.x and 10.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to an infinite loop in a 3D-rendering shader. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker with normal user privileges in the guest to make the VM unresponsive, and in some cases, possibly result other VMs on the host or the host itself becoming unresponsive.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18721 VMware ESXi (6.7, 6.5, 6.0), Workstation (15.x and 14.x) and Fusion (11.x and 10.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to an infinite loop in a 3D-rendering shader. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker with normal user privileges in the guest to make the VM unresponsive, and in some cases, possibly result other VMs on the host or the host itself becoming unresponsive.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
vmware
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 8:26 PM
Reserved
Feb 14, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 9, 2018, 8:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:02 AM