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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-9039

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

May 18, 2017

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file with many program headers, related to the get_program_headers function in readelf.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2017-9039
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-9039
CWE-770
EUVD-EUVD-2017-17979
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-17979

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