vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-20784

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 22, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.2, kernel/sched/fair.c mishandles leaf cfs_rq's, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop in update_blocked_averages) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inducing a high load.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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