vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-1975

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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