vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-2618

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 27, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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