vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-40283

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 14, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in l2cap_sock_release in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c in the Linux kernel before 6.4.10. There is a use-after-free because the children of an sk are mishandled.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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