vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-39191

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 4, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic pointers within user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. This may allow an attacker with CAP_BPF privileges to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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