vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-10853

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 11, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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