Virtual graphics cards create critical VMware risk

By Simon Sharwood on Oct 17, 2018 10:09AM

Guest-host escape on vSphere and desktop hypervisors.

VMware has revealed a critical-rated bug that impacts its core vSphere platform. VMSA-2018-0026 allows virtualization’s worst-case scenario: a guest VM escaping the hypervisor to run code on the host machine. The cause of the bug is an “Out-of-bounds read vulnerability” in SVGA ...

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