vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-3156

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 mishandles destruction of device objects, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS networking outage) by arranging for a large number of IP addresses.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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