{"id":7653,"date":"2018-11-11T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:17:29","slug":"security-update-for-vmware-workstation-pro-player-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/11\/11\/security-update-for-vmware-workstation-pro-player-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Security update for VMware Workstation Pro\/Player etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/10\/sicherheitsupdate-fr-vmware-workstation-pro-player\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]VMware has released security updates for its virtualization products VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Player, VMware ESXi and VMware Fusion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>VMware Security Advisory <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210411085734\/https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2018-0027.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMSA-2018-0027<\/a>, dated of 9 November 2018, refers to critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-6981, CVE-2018-6982). The VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address an uninitialized stack memory usage vulnerability. This applies to the following products: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware vSphere ESXi (ESXi)\n<li>VMware Workstation Pro \/ Player (Workstation)\n<li>VMware Fusion Pro, Fusion (Fusion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation include an uninitialized stack usage in the virtual network adapter vmxnet3. This vulnerability could allow a guest to execute code on the host. The problem occurs when vmxnet3 is enabled. Non-vmxnet3 virtual adapters are not affected by this issue. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESXi 6.7, Patch: ESXi670-201811401-BG\n<li>ESXi 6.5, Patch ESXi650-201811301-BG\n<li>ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201811401-BG\n<li>Workstation 15.x, Patch 15.0.1\n<li>Workstation 14.x, Patch 14.1.4\n<li>Fusion 11.x (OS X), Patch 11.0.1\n<li>Fusion 10.x (OS X), Patch 10.1.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details may be found within <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210411085734\/https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2018-0027.html\">this VMware article<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181112194708\/https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/vmware-patches-critical-guest-to-host-escape-issue-in-esxi-workstation-fusion-523712.shtml\">Softpedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]VMware has released security updates for its virtualization products VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Player, VMware ESXi and VMware Fusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,22,1218],"tags":[69,195,1710],"class_list":["post-7653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-update","category-virtualization","tag-security","tag-update","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}