VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0004) (CVE-2021-22040)
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
02/16/2022
02/25/2022
02/24/2022
02/28/2022
Description
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
Solution(s)
- vmware-player-upgrade-16_2_1
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