vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-1000140

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

rsyslog librelp version 1.2.14 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the checking of x509 certificates from a peer that can result in Remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable a remote attacker that can connect to rsyslog and trigger a stack buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted x509 certificate.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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