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CVE-2017-4915

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CVE-2017-4915

Published: May 22, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

VMware

Workstation Pro/Player

affected
All 12.x versions prior to version 12.5.6

References

98566
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
1038525
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
42045
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

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