vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-16597

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Sep 21, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.8. Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could be used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
NEW

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