vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-44983
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Sep 4, 2024 | Jan 20, 2025 | Oct 13, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Oct 13, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: flowtable: validate vlan header
Ensure there is sufficient room to access the protocol field of the
VLAN header, validate it once before the flowtable lookup.
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x45a/0x5f0 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:32
nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x45a/0x5f0 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:32
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
nf_hook_slow+0xf4/0x400 net/netfilter/core.c:626
nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline]
nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5440 [inline]
netfilter: flowtable: validate vlan header
Ensure there is sufficient room to access the protocol field of the
VLAN header, validate it once before the flowtable lookup.
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x45a/0x5f0 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:32
nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x45a/0x5f0 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:32
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
nf_hook_slow+0xf4/0x400 net/netfilter/core.c:626
nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline]
nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5440 [inline]
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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