vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-8890

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2017-05-10
Added
2025-01-20
Modified
2025-02-04

Description

The inet_csk_clone_lock function in net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of the accept system call.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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