CVE-2017-4916

medium

Description

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine.

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0009.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42140/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038526

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98560

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-22

Updated: 2017-08-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium