vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-16844

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 16, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadbuf function in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail message because of a hardcoded realloc size, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3618.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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