vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2015-0571

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 9, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

The WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not verify authorization for private SET IOCTL calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to wlan_hdd_hostapd.c and wlan_hdd_wext.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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