vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-15951

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 28, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.10 does not correctly synchronize the actions of updating versus finding a key in the "negative" state to avoid a race condition, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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