vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-45485

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 25, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3, net/ipv6/output_core.c has an information leak because of certain use of a hash table which, although big, doesn't properly consider that IPv6-based attackers can typically choose among many IPv6 source addresses.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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