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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-20811

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jun 3, 2020

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. In rx_queue_add_kobject() and netdev_queue_add_kobject() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, a reference count is mishandled, aka CID-a3e23f719f5c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2019-20811
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-20811
EUVD-EUVD-2019-11348
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-11348

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