Title: EGI SVG 'ALERT' [TLP:WHITE] CRITICAL risk VMware out of bounds read
vulnerability CVE-2018-6974 [EGI-SVG-CVE-2018-6974]
Date: 2018-10-24
Updated:
Affected software and risk
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CRITICAL risk vulnerability concerning VMware
Package : VMware
CVE ID : CVE-2018-6974
An out of bounds read vulnerability has been announced in VMware [R 1], [R 2].
The vulnerability may be exploited by a malicious actor to execute code on the
host as a guest.
VMware ESXi 6.7, 6.5, and 6.0, Workstation 14.x and Fusion 10.x. are affected
Actions required/recommended
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Any site using VMware should update urgently if they have not done so already.
Component installation information
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As in announcement [R 3]
Apply patches based on the version and VMware product being used.
* ESXi 6.7 https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
* ESXi 6.5 https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
* ESXi 6.0 https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
* Workstation Pro 14.1.3 https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation
* Workstation Player 14.1.3 https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer
* Fusion Pro / Fusion 10.1.3 https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion
More information
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See [R 1], [R 2], [R 3]
This issue is relevant for sites using VMware as a hypervisor for their
virtualized WNs, UIs or any other hosts with non-privileged users.
TLP and URL
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** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution -
see https://go.egi.eu/tlp for distribution restrictions **
URL: https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2018-6974
Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites
Comments
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Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu
If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI
you may report it by e-mail to
report-vulnerability at egi.eu
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the
procedure defined in [R 4]
Note that this has been updated and the latest version approved by the
Operations Management Board in November 2017
References
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[R 1] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0026.html
[R 2] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6974
[R 3] https://list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/cv-announce-l/2018-10/msg00000.html
[R 4] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=3145
Credit
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SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Andrew Adams via Trusted CI's
cv-announce list Information here is largely from that announcement. The mail
can be seen in the public archive [R 3]
Timeline
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Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-2018-CVE-2018-6974]
2018-10-19 SVG alerted to this issue by Andrew K Adams via Trusted CI's
cv-announce list
2018-10-23 Decision to send an alert
2018-10-25 Alert sent to sites
Context
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This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"
The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 4] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure.
It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be correct.
The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on how the
software is used.
Others may re-use this information provided they:-
1) Respect the provided TLP classification
2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group
On behalf of the EGI SVG,