vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-43267

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 2, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.16. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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