vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-22999

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 28, 2023
Added
Jan 29, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.16.3, drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c misinterprets the dwc3_qcom_create_urs_usb_platdev return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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