vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-7645

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 18, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.10.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a long RPC reply, related to net/sunrpc/svc.c, fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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