CVE-2018-6972

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
25/07/2018
Last modified:
02/06/2022

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 14.0 (including) 14.1.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.0 (including) 10.1.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:3a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:3b:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:550-20170901001s:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:550-20170904001:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:1a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:1b:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:2:*:*:*:*:*:*