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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-27830

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 13, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where in the spk_ttyio_receive_buf2() function, it would dereference spk_ttyio_synth without checking whether it is NULL or not, and may lead to a NULL-ptr deref crash.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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