vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-17862

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 23, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 ignores unreachable code, even though it would still be processed by JIT compilers. This behavior, also considered an improper branch-pruning logic issue, could possibly be used by local users for denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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