vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-26401

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Severity

2

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Mar 11, 2022

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

LFENCE/JMP (mitigation V2-2) may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

Rapid7 Labs

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