CVE-2016-7079: VMware Tools

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The graphic acceleration functions in VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.0.9 on OS X allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7080.

Affected products

• VMware Tools: up to and including 10.0.8; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.5 only; version 10.0.6 only; version 9.0.0 only; version 9.0.1 only; …

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.