vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-42159

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 30, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

scsi: mpi3mr: Sanitise num_phys

Information is stored in mr_sas_port->phy_mask, values larger then size of
this field shouldn't be allowed.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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