vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-6932

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 19, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread.

We recommend upgrading past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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