Download VMware Fusion 8.5.6 build 5234762

VMware has released version 8.5.6 of Fusion. Fusion is to OS X what Workstation and Player are to Windows and Linux. The program makes it possible to create virtual machines on an Intel processor equipped macOS machine. In this way it is possible, for example, to run Windows, Linux or Solaris alongside the existing operating system. Version 8.5 includes support for the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, macOS X Sierra 10.12, and Windows Server 2016. The following issues have also been fixed in this update:

This release of VMware Workstation Player addresses the following issues:

• VMware Workstation Player has a heap buffer overflow and uninitialized stack memory usage in SVGA. These issues might allow a guest virtual machine to execute code on the host.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2017-4902 (heap issue) and CVE-2017-4903 (stack issue) to these issues.
• The VMware Workstation Player XHCI driver has uninitialized memory usage. This issue might allow a guest virtual machine to execute code on the host.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4904 to this issue.
• VMware Workstation Player has uninitialized memory usage. This issue might lead to an information leak.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4905 to this issue.

Resolved Issues

• After you install VMware Tools on a 64-bit Windows virtual machine, when the virtual machine boots up, the system might display the following error:
  VMware Tools unrecoverable error: (vthread-4)
  Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
  This issue has been resolved.