vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-2182

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 6, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Android kernel in the kernel MMU code there is a possible execution path leaving some kernel text and rodata pages writable. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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