PT-2017-16199
CVE-2017-4915
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Published
2017-05-22
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Updated
2019-10-03
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
VMware Workstation Pro/Player (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. This could allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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