vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-17121
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Dec 4, 2017 | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 4, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025
Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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