cve-2022-31681
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-07 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 07:26
Severity ?
Summary
VMware ESXi contains a null-pointer deference vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may create a denial of service condition on the host.
Impacted products
n/aVMware ESXi
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