vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-9576

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 28, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

The blk_rq_map_user_iov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 does not properly restrict the type of iterator, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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