vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-7614

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 9, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025

Description

elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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