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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-12653

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

Description

An issue was found in Linux kernel before 5.5.4. The mwifiex_cmd_append_vsie_tlv() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service because of an incorrect memcpy and buffer overflow, aka CID-b70261a288ea.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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