vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-7227
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 22, 2017 | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025
Description
GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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