vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-38208

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 8, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

net/nfc/llcp_sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.10 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) by making a getsockname call after a certain type of failure of a bind call.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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