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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-10147

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 18, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

crypto/mcryptd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by using an AF_ALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptd(md5).

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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