vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-2785

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 23, 2022
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025

Description

There exists an arbitrary memory read within the Linux Kernel BPF - Constants provided to fill pointers in structs passed in to bpf_sys_bpf are not verified and can point anywhere, including memory not owned by BPF. An attacker with CAP_BPF can arbitrarily read memory from anywhere on the system. We recommend upgrading past commit 86f44fcec22c

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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