fkie_cve-2022-22942
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-12-13 09:15
Modified
2024-11-21 06:47
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356Release Notes
security@vmware.comhttps://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148Release Notes
security@vmware.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware photon_os 3.0
vmware photon_os 4.0


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