vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-41849

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 30, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a USB device while calling open(), aka a race condition between ufx_ops_open and ufx_usb_disconnect.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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