Upstream information

CVE-2018-6969 at MITRE

Description

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.4
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7 5.1
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required Low None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High Low
Integrity Impact High None
Availability Impact High Low
CVSSv3 Version 3 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1101848 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 open-vm-tools Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud open-vm-tools Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 open-vm-tools Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS open-vm-tools Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 open-vm-tools Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 open-vm-tools Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 open-vm-tools Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 open-vm-tools Analysis
Container Status
suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.2
suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.3
suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.4
suse/sle-micro/5.5
open-vm-toolsAnalysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jul 13 16:52:50 2018
CVE page last modified: Fri Mar 15 12:24:49 2024