vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-6965
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 17, 2017 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 17, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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