vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-9789

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

When under stress, closing many connections, the HTTP/2 handling code in Apache httpd 2.4.26 would sometimes access memory after it has been freed, resulting in potentially erratic behaviour.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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