CVE-2022-22942 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356 https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4