Database/Kernel, userspace & hypervisor
VMware ESXi / Workstation / Fusion: Use-after-free in the XHCI USB controller
CVE-2024-22252Kernel, userspace & hypervisorcurated
Impact
Use-after-free in the XHCI USB controller - guest-to-host code execution as the VMX process
Who can reach it
Tenant VM guest (local admin inside the VM)
What to do
ESXi patch + host reboot with evacuation. Interim mitigation: remove USB controllers from tenant VMs, which is cheap and usually harmless for GPU workloads
References
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