VMware Workstation Pro, the popular virtual machine software, has received a version 17.0.1 update, more than a month after the last update.
The official changelog shows that this version resolves issue CVE-2023-20854, which caused a malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim machine to potentially exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the file system of a machine with Workstation installed.
Fixes.
Unable to connect a USB device to a virtual machine
After creating a virtual machine, a USB device cannot be connected to that virtual machine. This issue occurred because of the default value of the USB. restrictions. default allow option in the VMX configuration file was configured to FALSE when the virtual machine was created. this issue has been resolved.
Hosts with Intel HD 4600 GPUs may crash when using a 3D-enabled virtual machine
When powering on a 3D-enabled virtual machine on a host with an Intel HD 4600 GPU, the host could crash. This issue has been resolved.
Virtualization Engine settings change when secure boot settings are changed in a virtual machine
The following settings under the Virtualization Engine change when secure boot is enabled or disabled in the virtual machine settings.
Virtualize Intel VT-x / EPT or AMD-V / RVI
Virtualize IOMMU (IO Memory Management Unit)
This issue has been resolved.
Workstation Pro crashes if the hardware compatibility of the virtual machine is changed after upgrading Workstation Pro
After upgrading Workstation Pro to version 17.0 and changing the hardware compatibility of an existing virtual machine to the latest version, Workstation Pro crashes when trying to edit virtual machine settings. This issue has been resolved.
VMware Workstation Pro introduces the Virtual Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 in 17.0, which officially supports Windows 11 as a guest operating system.
We can downland VMware Workstation 17.0.1 Pro for both Windows and Linux here.
