vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-8912

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 18, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.20.11, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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