vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-14156

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 5, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The atyfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading locations associated with padding bytes.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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