vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-3501

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 5, 2021
Added
Sep 22, 2025
Modified
Sep 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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