VMware Tools Graphic Acceleration Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

VMware Tools Graphic Acceleration Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE-2016-7080 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The graphic acceleration functions in VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.0.9 on OS X allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7079.

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