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-2016-7079.
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
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http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0014.html | vendor advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92938 | vdb entry third party advisory |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036804 | vdb entry |