KLA11019
Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware products

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware Workstation Pro and VMware Workstation Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges and cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An insecure library loading vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specially designed ALSA sound driver configuration files to gain privileges (get root privileges in a Linux host machine);
2. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the vstor2 driver can be exploited remotely to gain privileges and cause a denial of service in a Windows host machine.

NB: These vulnerabilities don’t have any public CVSS rating so rating can be changed by the time.

VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.6 for Windows and Linux
VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.6 for Windows and Linux

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VMware Security Advisory

The following public exploits exists for this vulnerability:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42045

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42140