CVE-2016-5328 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5328?

CVE-2016-5328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Dec 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-254, CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5328?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Tools.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5328?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5328 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-5328 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2023-34057 Privilege escalation in VMware Tools High 7.8
• CVE-2016-7079 Null dereference in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-7080 Null dereference in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2022-22977 XML external entity in VMware Tools for Windows High 7.1
• CVE-2019-5522 Information disclosure in VMware Tools for Windows High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-4h47-vq45-ccw2.