vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-7566

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 30, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The Linux kernel 4.15 has a Buffer Overflow via an SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_POOL ioctl write operation to /dev/snd/seq by a local user.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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