CVE-2017-4915

This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host process loads libasound, which parses ALSA configuration files, including one at ~/asoundrc libasound is not designed to run in a setuid context and deli ...

#!/bin/bash ################################################################################ # VMware Workstation Local Privilege Escalation exploit (CVE-2017-4915) # # - wwwvmwarecom/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0009html # # - wwwexploit-dbcom/exploits/42045/ # # ...

/* Source: bugschromiumorg/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1142 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host process loads libasound, which parses ALSA configuration files, including one a ...