vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-7425

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 16, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The arcmsr_iop_message_xfer function in drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 does not restrict a certain length field, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via an ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER control code.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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