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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-4482

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
2	(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)	2016-05-23	2025-01-20	2025-02-04

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

2016-05-23

Added

2025-01-20

Modified

2025-02-04

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

References

CVE-2016-4482
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-4482

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