vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-15920

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has a use-after-free. NOTE: this was not fixed correctly in 5.0.10; see the 5.0.11 ChangeLog, which documents a memory leak.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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