vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-8043

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 10, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.8 does not validate certain resource availability, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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