vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-9074

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 19, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

The IPv6 fragmentation implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 does not consider that the nexthdr field may be associated with an invalid option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted socket and send system calls.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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