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high7.7

CVE-2020-3982

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.…

Impact

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
VmwareEsxi
Versions 7.0.0, 6.7, 6.5
VmwareCloud Foundation
from 3.0 before 3.10.1
from 4.0 before 4.1
VmwareWorkstation
from 15.0 through 15.5.6
VmwareWorkstation Player
from 15.0 through 15.5.6
VmwareFusion
from 11.0 before 11.5.6

Weakness classification

References