vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-20095

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 30, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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