suse · CVE-2018-6969

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:10:58 UTC Updated: 2023-02-10 01:55:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-6969 severity moderate: SUSE including 3 source package names (libvmtools0, open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop), 3 product×package rows across 1 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS): Known Not Affected 3.

Description:

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

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