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VMware Patches Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape Flaws (www.vmware.com)

submitted 10 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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VMware issued patches for critical flaws in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation, with a focus on two use-after-free vulnerabilities in the XHCI USB controller (CVE-2024-22252, CVE-2024-22253) scoring 9.3 CVSS. These allow local admin privilege escalation and code execution on the host. An ESXi out-of-bounds write and an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller were also noted.

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