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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-4482

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Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 23, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

The proc_connectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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