CVE-2022-22942 (GCVE-0-2022-22942)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-13 08:16 – Updated: 2024-08-03 03:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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
7.8 (High)
CWE
- Privilege escalation
Assigner
References
Date Public
2022-01-27 07:06
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