VMware Tools HGFS Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2015-6933 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

The VMware Tools HGFS (aka Shared Folders) implementation in VMware Workstation 11.x before 11.1.2, VMware Player 7.x before 7.1.2, VMware Fusion 7.x before 7.1.2, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0 allows Windows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS kernel memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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