vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-9685

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 28, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

Multiple memory leaks in error paths in fs/xfs/xfs_attr_list.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XFS filesystem operations.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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