vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-38432

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 17, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.10. fs/smb/server/smb2misc.c in ksmbd does not validate the relationship between the command payload size and the RFC1002 length specification, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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