VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4936

high
Published 2017-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Horizon View Client for Windows (4.x before 4.6.1) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in JPEG2000 parser in the TPView.dll. On Workstation, this may allow a guest to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS that runs Workstation. In the case of a Horizon View Client, this may allow a View desktop to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS that runs the Horizon View Client.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation12.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.1.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.2
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.3
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.4
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.5
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.6
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.7
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.0.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.0.1
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.1
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.2
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.3
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.4
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.5
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.6

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.