vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-38639
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 22, 2025 | Sep 3, 2025 | Feb 9, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 22, 2025
Added
Sep 3, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in .. lib/vsprintf.c:721
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801eac95c8 by task syz-executor183/5851
[..]
string+0x231/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:721
vsnprintf+0x739/0xf00 lib/vsprintf.c:2874
[..]
nfacct_mt_checkentry+0xd2/0xe0 net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c:41
xt_check_match+0x3d1/0xab0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:523
nfnl_acct_find_get() handles non-null input, but the error
printk relied on its presence.
netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in .. lib/vsprintf.c:721
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801eac95c8 by task syz-executor183/5851
[..]
string+0x231/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:721
vsnprintf+0x739/0xf00 lib/vsprintf.c:2874
[..]
nfacct_mt_checkentry+0xd2/0xe0 net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c:41
xt_check_match+0x3d1/0xab0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:523
nfnl_acct_find_get() handles non-null input, but the error
printk relied on its presence.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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