vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-23850

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 23, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In btrfs_get_root_ref in fs/btrfs/disk-io.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1, there can be an assertion failure and crash because a subvolume can be read out too soon after its root item is inserted upon subvolume creation.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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