vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-39189

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 2, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.18.17. Unprivileged guest users can compromise the guest kernel because TLB flush operations are mishandled in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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