Number: AV16-187
Date: 14 November 2016
Purpose
The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to multiple security updates released by VMware.
Assessment
VMware has release security updates for the VMware Workstation and Workstation Fusion products. The severities of the vulnerabilities addressed with these updates are critical. The drag and drop function of the below mentioned products may allow a guest to execute code on the host operating system via an out-of-bound memory access vulnerability.
Affected Products:
VMware Workstation Pro 12.x / Player 12.x
VMware Fusion Pro 8.x / Fusion 8.x
CVE References: CVE-2016-7461
Suggested Action
CCIRC recommends that system administrators test and deploy the vendor released updates on affected platforms accordingly.
References:
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0019.html