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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-10940

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 9, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The cdrom_ioctl_media_changed function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.6 allows local attackers to use a incorrect bounds check in the CDROM driver CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl to read out kernel memory.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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