vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-52686

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 17, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_event_init()

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
which can be NULL upon failure.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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