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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-10661

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Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2017-08-19
Added
2025-01-20
Modified
2025-02-04

Description

Race condition in fs/timerfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.15 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (list corruption or use-after-free) via simultaneous file-descriptor operations that leverage improper might_cancel queueing.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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