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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-5547

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 6, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

drivers/hid/hid-corsair.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

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