vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-10942

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C)
Published
Mar 24, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.5.8, get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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