Download VMware Workstation Player 17.5.1

VMware has released version 17.5.1 of Workstation Player. Player is free software that creates and runs virtual machines. However, a fee is charged for commercial use. Simply put, it is a simplified version 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in version 17.5.1:

What's New

This release contains security and bug fixes.

• This release resolves CVE-2024-22251. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see VMSA-2024-0005.

Resolved Issues

• Keyboard hangs on Linux guest virtual machines
  Linux guest virtual machines might have their keyboard processing hang after specific combinations of keyboard/mouse events. This issue has been resolved.
• Security Issues

Security Issues

• curl has been updated to 8.4