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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-1234

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 1, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24, when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long name.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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