vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-27673

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 22, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka CID-e99502f76271.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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