vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-16994

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 27, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore() system call.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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