vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-42229

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 30, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use

I.G 9.7.B for FIPS 140-3 specifies that variables temporarily holding
cryptographic information should be zeroized once they are no longer
needed. Accomplish this by using kfree_sensitive for buffers that
previously held the private key.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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