vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-3679

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 5, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

A lack of CPU resource in the Linux kernel tracing module functionality in versions prior to 5.14-rc3 was found in the way user uses trace ring buffer in a specific way. Only privileged local users (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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