VMWare Workstation For Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

VMWare Workstation For Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200502-18) and an updated eBuild to address this issue. This update can be installed by issuing the following sequence of commands as a superuser:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot verbose ">=app-emulation/vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5"