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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0001) (CVE-2021-22045)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0001) (CVE-2021-22045)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/04/2022
Created
02/18/2022
Added
02/17/2022
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0, 6.7 before ESXi670-202111101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202110101-SG), VMware Workstation (16.2.0) and VMware Fusion (12.2.0) contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in CD-ROM device emulation. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with CD-ROM device emulation may be able to exploit this vulnerability in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-16_2_0

References

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