Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2020-3981
CVE-2020-3981
Description
VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.
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Affected products
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- Range: 15.x
Patches
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References
1- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0023.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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