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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-6874

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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-6874

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/14/2017
Created
01/21/2025
Added
01/20/2025
Modified
02/04/2025

Description

Race condition in kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls that leverage certain decrement behavior that causes incorrect interaction between put_ucounts and get_ucounts.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

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