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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2023-12-13T08:16:34.363Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:28:42.652Z

Reserved: 2022-01-10T15:34:55.706Z

Link: CVE-2022-22942

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-12-13T09:15:33.890

Modified: 2023-12-18T17:27:31.137

Link: CVE-2022-22942

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-01-27T20:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-22942 - Bugzilla