vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-52441

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 21, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: fix out of bounds in init_smb2_rsp_hdr()

If client send smb2 negotiate request and then send smb1 negotiate
request, init_smb2_rsp_hdr is called for smb1 negotiate request since
need_neg is set to false. This patch ignore smb1 packets after ->need_neg
is set to false.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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