VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-22942

CVE-2022-22942

Description

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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