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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-40307

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 9, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.19.8. drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c has a race condition with a resultant use-after-free.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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