CVE-2018-6977

N/A
Published: October 9, 2018 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:02 AM UTC
3 products affected across 1 vendorWorkstationESXiFusion

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7, 6.5, 6.0), Workstation (15.x and 14.x) and Fusion (11.x and 10.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to an infinite loop in a 3D-rendering shader. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker with normal user privileges in the guest to make the VM unresponsive, and in some cases, possibly result other VMs on the host or the host itself becoming unresponsive.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

10.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 10.1.511.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 11.0.211.x and 10.x
14.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 14.1.515.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 15.0.215.x and 14.x

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (4)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105549
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041821
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041822

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835

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