vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-0500

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 25, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in unrestricted eBPF usage by the BPF_BTF_LOAD, leading to a possible out-of-bounds memory write in the Linux kernel’s BPF subsystem due to the way a user loads BTF. This flaw allows a local user to crash or escalate their privileges on the system.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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