CVE-2018-6972

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

• CWE-476

• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Jul 25, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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