vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-3239

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 19, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel video4linux driver was found in the way user triggers em28xx_usb_probe() for the Empia 28xx based TV cards. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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