vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-39951

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 4, 2025
Added
Oct 14, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025

Description

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

um: virtio_uml: Fix use-after-free after put_device in probe

When register_virtio_device() fails in virtio_uml_probe(),
the code sets vu_dev->registered = 1 even though
the device was not successfully registered.
This can lead to use-after-free or other issues.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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