vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-48672

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 3, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes()

Commit 78c44d910d3e ("drivers/of: Fix depth when unflattening devicetree")
forgot to fix up the depth check in the loop body in unflatten_dt_nodes()
which makes it possible to overflow the nps[] buffer...

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
analysis tool.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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