VMware ESXi (6.5 before ESXi650-201710401-BG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8), and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated VNC session to cause a heap overflow via a specific set of VNC packets resulting in heap corruption. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution in a virtual machine via the authenticated VNC session. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible in ESXi, VNC must be manually enabled in a virtual machine's .vmx configuration file. In addition, ESXi must be configured to allow VNC traffic through the built-in firewall.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published: 2017-12-20T15:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T23:51:11.761Z
Reserved: 2016-12-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-4933
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-12-20T15:29:00.217
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:26:41.893
Link: CVE-2017-4933
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