VMware Workstation 8.0.4 Released

VMware has recently released VMware Workstation 8.0.4. It is a free update for all VMware Workstation 8 users.

This is mainly a maintenance release resolving a number of issues including (from the Release Notes) :

Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address.
On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity.
Unity mode would exit if the title bar of an application contained certain non UTF-8 encoded extended ASCII characters.
VMware host Checkpoint file memory corruption Input data was not properly validated when loading Checkpoint files. This issue could have allowed an attacker with the ability to load a specially crafted Checkpoint file to execute arbitrary code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2012-3288 to this issue.

Check out the Workstation 8.0.4 Release Notes for full details.

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