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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-44733

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 22, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A use-after-free exists in drivers/tee/tee_shm.c in the TEE subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11. This occurs because of a race condition in tee_shm_get_from_id during an attempt to free a shared memory object.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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