VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0009) (CVE-2017-4915)
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
05/22/2017
07/25/2018
05/23/2017
10/30/2017
Description
VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine.
Solution(s)
- vmware-workstation-upgrade-12_5_6
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