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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-6327

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Oct 16, 2016

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by using an ABORT_TASK command to abort a device write operation.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2016-6327
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-6327
CWE-476
EUVD-EUVD-2016-7254
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-7254

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