vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-27835

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 7, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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