vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-17450

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 7, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

net/netfilter/xt_osf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for add_callback and remove_callback operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions because the xt_osf_fingers data structure is shared across all net namespaces.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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