vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-13716
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 28, 2017 | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 28, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025
Description
The C++ symbol demangler routine in cplus-dem.c in libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a call from the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd).
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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