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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2013-7459

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a crafted iv parameter to cryptmsg.py.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

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