CVE-2018-6977 Information

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 6.5 6.0) Workstation (15.x and 14.x) and Fusion (11.x and 10.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to an infinite loop in a 3D-rendering shader. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker with normal user privileges in the guest to make the VM unresponsive and in some cases possibly result other VMs on the host or the host itself becoming unresponsive.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105549 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041821 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041822 https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0025.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5