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VMware's rushed out a patch for the serious desktop hypervisor bug turned up at the Pwnfest hacker convention. CVE-2016-7461 is a critical-rated out-of-bounds memory access vuln present in VMware Workstation and VMWare Fusion. The bug scores a critical rating because it could allow a guest to “execute code on the operating …

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  1. batfastad

    Hello Darkness My Old Friend

    Good old HTML 4 default table styling... I have missed you!

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Drag'N'Drop between VMs

    How did they miss such an obvious hole? Epic stupidity....

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