vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-7223

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

GNU assembler in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a global buffer overflow (of size 1) while attempting to unget an EOF character from the input stream, potentially leading to a program crash.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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