vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-42752

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 13, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An integer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel. This issue leads to the kernel allocating `skb_shared_info` in the userspace, which is exploitable in systems without SMAP protection since `skb_shared_info` contains references to function pointers.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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