vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-15118

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 16, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

check_input_term in sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 mishandles recursion, leading to kernel stack exhaustion.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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