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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0009) (CVE-2019-5525)

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 6, 2019
Added
Jul 4, 2019
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0) contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) backend. A malicious user with normal user privileges on the guest machine may exploit this issue in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the Linux host where Workstation is installed.

Solution

vmware-player-upgrade-15_1_0

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