Note that VMware Tools in any Windows-based guests that use the Shared Folders (HGFS) feature must also be updated to completely mitigate the vulnerability. Solution Upgrade to VMware Workstation 11.1.2 or later. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, resulting in an elevation of privileges. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders (HGFS) feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input.

Description The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote host is 11.x prior to 11.1.2. Synopsis A virtualization application installed on the remote host is affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability. Customers who purchase VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Player 6 Plus between October 2014 and December 2014 will receive a free electronic. Severity display preferences can be toggled in the settings dropdown. Upgrades from VMware Workstation 9.x and 10.x to Workstation 11 will be priced at 149.99 and upgrades from VMware Player 6 Plus to VMware Player 7 Pro will be priced at 79.99, at the time of availability. Plugins that do not have a CVSS v3 score will fall back to CVSS v2 for calculating severity. Open it with a text editor like Notepad, and add the following line.

Exit the program, and navigate to the folder which has your virtual machines settings, and look for the.

Create a new guest OS in VMware Workstation Player. As you can see, VMware Workstation allows. How to enable TPM 2.0 support in VMware Workstation Player for free. The calculated severity for Plugins has been updated to use CVSS v3 by default. If you have installed VMware Workstation 16, you will see that DirectX 11 is not supported by VMware Workstation 15.

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