vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-1476

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 3, 2023
Added
Jan 29, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s mm/mremap memory address space accounting source code. This issue occurs due to a race condition between rmap walk and mremap, allowing a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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