vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-5637

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 10, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

Two four letter word commands "wchp/wchc" are CPU intensive and could cause spike of CPU utilization on Apache ZooKeeper server if abused, which leads to the server unable to serve legitimate client requests. Apache ZooKeeper thru version 3.4.9 and 3.5.2 suffer from this issue, fixed in 3.4.10, 3.5.3, and later.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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