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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2024-0006) (CVE-2024-22255)

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VMware Player: Vulnerability (VMSA-2024-0006) (CVE-2024-22255)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/05/2024
Created
04/26/2024
Added
04/25/2024
Modified
04/25/2024

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.  

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-17_5_1

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