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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-10688

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 29, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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