vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-11565
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) | Apr 6, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 6, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.2. mpol_parse_str in mm/mempolicy.c has a stack-based out-of-bounds write because an empty nodelist is mishandled during mount option parsing, aka CID-aa9f7d5172fa. NOTE: Someone in the security community disagrees that this is a vulnerability because the issue “is a bug in parsing mount options which can only be specified by a privileged user, so triggering the bug does not grant any powers not already held.”
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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