vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-27815

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
May 26, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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