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CVE-2022-22942

Date: December 13, 2023

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.

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22942

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-22942

Url: https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22942

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-22942

Url: https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148

Url: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-22942

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

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