vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-7117

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 10, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that is mishandled during error processing.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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