vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-38381

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 21, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

nfc: nci: Fix uninit-value in nci_rx_work

syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]

nci_rx_work() parses received packet from ndev->rx_q. It should be
validated header size, payload size and total packet size before
processing the packet. If an invalid packet is detected, it should be
silently discarded.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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