VMware patches five security vulnerabilities

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VMware pushed out security updates covering five vulnerabilities that if exploited could lead to information disclosure or a denial of service situation.

The important-rated vulnerabilities are CVE-2019-5540, CVE-2019-5541 and CVE-2019-5542 and impact VMware Workstation Pro / Player and VMware Fusion Pro/Fusion.

• CVE-2019-5541 covers an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in e1000e virtual network adapter that could lead to lead to code execution on the host from the guest or may allow attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM.
• CVE-2019-5540 is an information disclosure vulnerability in vmnetdhcp that if abused could allow an attacker on a guest VM to disclose sensitive information by leaking memory from the host process.
• CVE-2019-5542 refers to a denial-of-service vulnerability in the RPC handler giving attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM.

The two moderate issues covered are CVE-2018-12207 and CVE-2019-11135 and effect VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.