Security Vulnerabilities fixed in VMware Workstation Player VMSA-2019-0008
Description
Intel has disclosed details on speculative-execution vulnerabilities known collectively as MicroarchitecturalData Sampling (MDS)"that can occur on Intel microarchitecture prior to 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (formerly known as Cascade Lake). These issues may allow a malicious user who can locally execute code on a system to infer data otherwise protected by architectural mechanisms.
Affected Applications
VMware Workstation Player