vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-4129

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 28, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). A missing lock when clearing sk_user_data can lead to a race condition and NULL pointer dereference. A local user could use this flaw to potentially crash the system causing a denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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