Software Update: VMware Workstation Player 15.5.0

VMware has released version 15.5 Workstation Player. Player is free software to create and run virtual machines. However, a fee is charged for commercial use. Simply put, it is a simplified implementation of other VMware products, such as Workstation Pro, Server, and ESX Server. Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disks are also supported. In addition, several pre-installed virtual machines can be installed via this page are downloaded, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. In version 15.5, support has been added for several new operating systems and jumbo framesand some security vulnerabilities have been fixed.

What’s New

• Support for new guest operating systems:
  • Windows 10 19b
  • Debian 10.0/10.1
  • Debian 9.11
  • Oracle Linux 8.0
  • SLE 15 SP1
  • FreeBSD 12.0
  • PhotonOS 3.0
• Jumbo frame support: Virtual networks can now be configured with MTU sizes of up to 9000 bytes.
• Open VM Tools is the default VMware Tools for applicable Linux virtual machine:

  For more information, see Workstation 15.5 Player for Windows and Workstation 15.5 Player for Linux product documentation.

Important Fixes

• Workstation 15.5 Player addresses the use-after-free and denial-of-service vulnerabilities. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the following IDs to these issues :
  • CVE-2019-5527 (use after free )
  • CVE-2019-5535 (denial of service)

  For more information, see VMSA-2019-0014.

• Implemented DLL loading security improvements, suggested by Peleg Hadar of Safebreach.