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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-3739

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 7, 2022
Added
Sep 19, 2025
Modified
Oct 10, 2025

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the btrfs_rm_device function in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux Kernel, where triggering the bug requires ‘CAP_SYS_ADMIN’. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system or leak kernel internal information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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