vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-3134

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not validate certain offset fields, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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