vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-9857

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 18, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.0.2, the function inotify_update_existing_watch() in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c neglects to call fsnotify_put_mark() with IN_MASK_CREATE after fsnotify_find_mark(), which will cause a memory leak (aka refcount leak). Finally, this will cause a denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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