vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-21715

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Oct 13, 2025
Modified
Oct 13, 2025

Description

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

net: davicom: fix UAF in dm9000_drv_remove

dm is netdev private data and it cannot be
used after free_netdev() call. Using dm after free_netdev()
can cause UAF bug. Fix it by moving free_netdev() at the end of the
function.

This is similar to the issue fixed in commit
ad297cd2db89 ("net: qcom/emac: fix UAF in emac_remove").

This bug is detected by our static analysis tool.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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