vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-5546

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 6, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

The freelist-randomization feature in mm/slab.c in the Linux kernel 4.8.x and 4.9.x before 4.9.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (duplicate freelist entries and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging the selection of a large value for a random number.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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