vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-7912

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 16, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ffs_user_copy_worker function in drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 allows local users to gain privileges by accessing an I/O data structure after a certain callback call.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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