vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-2383

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

The adjust_branches function in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 does not consider the delta in the backward-jump case, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by creating a packet filter and then loading crafted BPF instructions.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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