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back to article It's patchin' time for devs using Virtzilla's desktop hypervisors

Time to patch your desktop hypervisors, folks: VMware Workstation and Fusion have a pair of problems apiece. The first landed last week in the form of a merely “important” patch for Workstation that fixed a problem whereby loading a .DLL could escalate privileges. Updating to version 12.5.3 sorted that one out. But you may …

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  1. dan1980

    It's always patchin' time . . .

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    I like it when there are security issues in VMware Workstation/Player

    That always means they update it so it compiles automatically with the latest Linux kernel, and I don't have to visit rglinuxtech.com for a tiny patch to fix it when I update Fedora to a new kernel. Version 12.5.3 added kernel 4.9 and 4.10 support, for instance.

    Unfortunately 12.5.4 has followed too closely on the heels of 12.5.3, so we may miss out on getting kernel 4.11 support.

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