vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-5728
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C) | Jun 27, 2016 | Jan 20, 2025 | Jul 14, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 27, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025
Description
Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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