vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-3753

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 16, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Oct 10, 2025

Description

A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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