VMware Workstation ALSA Config File Local Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VMware Workstation ALSA Config File Local Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in VMware Workstation Pr...

CVE-2017-4915

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine...

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/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...

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/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, whic...

VirtualBox Unprivilege Host User To Host Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits VirtualBox: unprivileged host user - host kernel privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-3576 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged devi...