vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-5332

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 11, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel through 3.2, the rds_message_alloc_sgs() function does not validate a value that is used during DMA page allocation, leading to a heap-based out-of-bounds write (related to the rds_rdma_extra_size function in net/rds/rdma.c).

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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