vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-18885

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 14, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1 allows a btrfs_verify_dev_extents NULL pointer dereference via a crafted btrfs image because fs_devices->devices is mishandled within find_device, aka CID-09ba3bc9dd15.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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