vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-14835

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 17, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found, in versions from 2.6.34 to 5.2.x, in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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