vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-11237
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | May 18, 2018 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 18, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
An AVX-512-optimized implementation of the mempcpy function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.27 and earlier may write data beyond the target buffer, leading to a buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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