vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-1729

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 1, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A race condition was found the Linux kernel in perf_event_open() which can be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. The bug allows to build several exploit primitives such as kernel address information leak, arbitrary execution, etc.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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