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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-29370

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 28, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk in mm/slub.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.11. The slowpath lacks the required TID increment, aka CID-fd4d9c7d0c71.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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