vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-7191

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 17, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

In the tun subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.14, dev_get_valid_name is not called before register_netdevice. This allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via an ioctl(TUNSETIFF) call with a dev name containing a / character. This is similar to CVE-2013-4343.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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