Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.
Executive summary
The NVWGF2UMX_CFG.DLL driver contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that an attacker could use to disrupt processes over a virtual machine. An adversary could exploit this bug by
providing a specially crafted pixel shader over VMware guests and VMware hosts, leading to VMware to process crash on the host machine.
In accordance with our coordinated disclosure policy, Cisco Talos worked with NVIDIA and VMware to ensure that these issues are resolved and that an update is available for affected customers.
Vulnerability details
NVIDIA NVWGF2UMX_CFG.DLL shader functionality denial-of-service vulnerability (TALOS-2019-0971/CVE-2020-5965)
An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in NVIDIA NVWGF2UMX_CFG.DLL (version 26.21.14.4128 and 26.21.14.4166 on NVIDIA D3D10 and version 441.28 and 441.66 on NVIDIA Quadro K620). A specially crafted pixel shader can cause denial-of-service issues. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability. This vulnerability can be triggered from VMware guest and VMware hosts will be affected (leading to vmware-vmx.exe process crash on host).
Read the complete vulnerability advisory here for additional information.
Versions tested
Talos tested and confirmed that TALOS-2019-0971 affects VMware Workstation 15 (15.5.1 build-15018445) wi ..
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