vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-6455

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 27, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94, when using PPSAPI, allows local users to gain privileges via a DLL in the PPSAPI_DLLS environment variable.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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