New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0005

This is a critical security advisory from VMware (VMSA)

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

VMSA-2017-0005 – VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability

The advisory documents a critical severity out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability (CVE-2017-4901). Exploitation of the issue may allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs Workstation or Fusion. ESXi is not affected.

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