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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-3982

CVE-2020-3982

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 write 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 vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.

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Affected products

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  • VMware/ESXidescription
  • VMware/Esxillm-fuzzy
    Range: 7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG
  • VMware/Fusionllm-fuzzy
    Range: 11.x before 11.5.6
  • VMware/Workstationllm-fuzzy
    Range: 15.x

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