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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-19377

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 29, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, mounting a crafted btrfs filesystem image, performing some operations, and unmounting can lead to a use-after-free in btrfs_queue_work in fs/btrfs/async-thread.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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