vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-8924

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 12, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

The edge_bulk_in_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (in the dmesg ringbuffer and syslog) from uninitialized kernel memory by using a crafted USB device (posing as an io_ti USB serial device) to trigger an integer underflow.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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