vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-50185

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 8, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

mptcp: handle consistently DSS corruption

Bugged peer implementation can send corrupted DSS options, consistently
hitting a few warning in the data path. Use DEBUG_NET assertions, to
avoid the splat on some builds and handle consistently the error, dumping
related MIBs and performing fallback and/or reset according to the
subflow type.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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