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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-29154

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026

Description

BPF JIT compilers in the Linux kernel through 5.11.12 have incorrect computation of branch displacements, allowing them to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context. This affects arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c and arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp32.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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