vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-5417

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 16, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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