vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-8645

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 28, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skb truncation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application that makes sendto system calls, related to net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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