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
Mar 25, 2026

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
Title
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