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CVE-2016-5328

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.1.0 on OS X, when System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, allows local users to determine kernel memory addresses and bypass the kASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Tools: through 10.0.8; 10.0.0, 10.0.5, 10.0.6, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.5 (+16)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93886
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037102
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0017.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93886
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037102
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0017.html

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