### [CVE-2022-22942](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22942)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds