vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-37159

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 21, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

hso_free_net_device in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.4 calls unregister_netdev without checking for the NETREG_REGISTERED state, leading to a use-after-free and a double free.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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