VMSA-2017-0006

VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address critical and moderate security issues

1. Summary

   VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address critical and moderate

   security issues.

2. Relevant Products

• VMware ESXi (ESXi)  
  
• VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)  
  
• VMware Fusion Pro, Fusion (Fusion)
  
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3. Problem Description

a. ESXi, Workstation, Fusion SVGA memory corruption

ESXi, Workstation, Fusion have a heap buffer overflow and uninitialized stack memory usage in SVGA. These issues may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

VMware would like to thank ZDI and Team 360 Security from Qihoo for reporting these issues to us.
 

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2017-4902 (heap issue) and CVE-2017-4903 (stack issue) to these issues.

Note: ESXi 6.0 is affected by CVE-2017-4903 but not by CVE-2017-4902.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

* Additional ESXi 6.0 patches are provided for customers that are on ESXi 6.0 U1 or ESXi 6.0 U2.

b. ESXi, Workstation, Fusion XHCI uninitialized memory usage

The ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion XHCI controller has uninitialized memory usage. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host. The issue is reduced to a Denial of Service of the guest on ESXi 5.5.

VMware would like to thank ZDI and Team Sniper from Tencent Security for reporting this issue to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4904 to this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

* Additional ESXi 6.0 patches are provided for customers that are on ESXi 6.0 U1 or ESXi 6.0 U2.

c. ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion uninitialized memory usage

ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion have uninitialized memory usage. This issue may lead to an information leak.   

VMware would like to thank ZDI and Team Sniper from Tencent Security for reporting this issue to us.  

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4905 to this issue.  

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

* Additional ESXi 6.0 patches are provided for customers that are on ESXi 6.0 U1 or ESXi 6.0 U2.

4. Solution

Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.

VMware ESXi 6.5  

Downloads:  

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch 

Documentation:  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149573

VMware ESXi 6.0 patch on top of ESXi 6.0 U3

Downloads: 

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch

Documentation:   

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149569

VMware ESXi 6.0 patch on top of ESXi 6.0 U2  

Downloads:  

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=491&downloadGroup=ESXI60U2  

(Click on the above link and scroll down to ESXi600-201703003 Offline Bundle)

Documentation:  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149673  

VMware ESXi 6.0 patch on top of ESXi 6.0 U1  

Downloads:  

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=491&downloadGroup=ESXI60U1B

(Click on the above link and scroll down to ESXi600-201703002 Offline Bundle) 

Documentation:  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149672

VMware ESXi 5.5   

Downloads: 

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch

Documentation:   

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149577

VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.5 

Downloads and Documentation:  

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation  

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ws_pubs.html  

VMware Workstation Player 12.5.5  

Downloads and Documentation:  

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer  

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/player_pubs.html 

VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion 8.5.6  

Downloads and Documentation:  

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion  

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/fusion_pubs.html

5. References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-4902  

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-4903  

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-4904  

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-4905

VMware Knowledge Base article 2149673  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149673

VMware Knowledge Base article 2149672  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149672

6. Change log

2017-03-28 VMSA-2017-0006  

Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of ESXi patches and VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.5.5 and VMware Fusion Pro, Fusion 8.5.6 on 2017-03-28.

7. Contact

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This Security Advisory is posted to the following lists:

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PGP key at:

https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1055

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https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/security_response.html

VMware Lifecycle Support Phases

https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle.html

VMware Security & Compliance Blog  

https://blogs.vmware.com/security

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