VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201907101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.0.2) contain a heap overflow vulnerability in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with a vmxnet3 network adapter present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-25236 VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201907101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.0.2) contain a heap overflow vulnerability in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with a vmxnet3 network adapter present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T07:52:20.541Z

Reserved: 2019-12-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-3971

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-06-25T15:15:11.507

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:32:05.303

Link: CVE-2020-3971

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