vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-1637

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 27, 2023
Added
Jan 29, 2025
Modified
Oct 13, 2025

Description

A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the way user resuming CPU from suspend-to-RAM. A local user could use this flaw to potentially get unauthorized access to some memory of the CPU similar to the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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