vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-38209

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 8, 2021
Added
Oct 10, 2025
Modified
Oct 10, 2025

Description

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.2 allows observation of changes in any net namespace because these changes are leaked into all other net namespaces. This is related to the NF_SYSCTL_CT_MAX, NF_SYSCTL_CT_EXPECT_MAX, and NF_SYSCTL_CT_BUCKETS sysctls.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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