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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-40768

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 18, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Oct 15, 2025

Description

drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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