-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2016-0017 Severity: Moderate Synopsis: VMware product updates address multiple information disclosure issues Issue date: 2016-10-25 Updated on: 2016-10-25 (Initial Advisory) CVE number: CVE-2016-5328, CVE-2016-5329 1. Summary VMware product updates address information disclosure issues in VMware Fusion and VMware Tools running on Mac OS X. 2. Relevant Products VMware Fusion VMware Tools 3. Problem Description a. VMware Tools Information disclosure issue in Mac OS X Virtual Machines An information disclosure vulnerability is present in VMware Tools running on Mac OS X VMs. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow a privileged local user on a system where System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, to obtain kernel memory addresses to bypass the kASLR protection mechanism. SIP is default enabled in the latest versions of Mac OS X. There are no known workarounds for this issue. VMware would like to thank Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2016-5328 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. VMware Product Running Replace with/ Product Version on Severity Apply Patch** Workaround ============ ======= ======= ======== ============= ========== VMware Tools 9.x,10.x Window N/A not affected None VMware Tools 9.x,10.x Linux N/A not affected None VMware Tools 9.x,10.x Mac OS X Moderate 10.1.0* None * VMware Tools 10.1.0 can be downloaded independently and installed to resolve this issue. ** At the moment, no versions of ESXi and Fusion consume the latest version of VMware Tools i.e. 10.1.0. Remediation of this issue on ESXi and Fusion requires downloading and installation of VMware Tools 10.1.0. b. VMware Fusion Information disclosure An information disclosure vulnerability is present in VMware Fusion. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow a privileged local user on a system where System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, to obtain kernel memory addresses to bypass the kASLR protection mechanism. SIP is default enabled in the latest versions of Mac OS X. There are no known workarounds for this issue. VMware would like to thank Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2016-5329 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. VMware Product Running Replace with/ Product Version on Severity Apply Patch Workaround =============== ======= ======= ======== ============= ========== VMware Fusion 8.x Mac OS X Moderate 8.5 None 4. Solution Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file. VMware Fusion 8.5 - - ----------------------------- Downloads and Documentation: https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion VMware Tools 10.1.0 - - ------------------------------ Downloads: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VMTOOLS1010&productI d=491 Documentation: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vmwaretools/1010/vmware-tools-1010- release-notes.html 5. References http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5328 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5329 6. Change log 2016-10-25 VMSA-2016-0017 Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of VMware Tools 10.1.0 on 2016-10-25. 7. Contact E-mail list for product security notifications and announcements: http://lists.vmware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/security-announce This Security Advisory is posted to the following lists: security-announce@lists.vmware.com bugtraq@securityfocus.com fulldisclosure@seclists.org E-mail: security@vmware.com PGP key at: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1055 VMware Security Advisories http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories Consolidated list of VMware Security Advisories http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2078735 VMware Security Response Policy https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/security_response.html VMware Lifecycle Support Phases https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle.html Twitter https://twitter.com/VMwareSRC Copyright 2016 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Encryption Desktop 10.3.2 (Build 21165) Charset: utf-8 wj8DBQFYEDBSDEcm8Vbi9kMRAuPfAKC5RBI+0P/ayy1hqsQYizu0T/55FQCghX68 sbgyxgU/FYYr554HQ+4Otqw= =47f/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----