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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-12066

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Jun 8, 2018

Added

Jul 2, 2025

Modified

May 27, 2026

Description

BIRD Internet Routing Daemon before 1.6.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via BGP mask expressions in birdc.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2018-12066
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-12066
CWE-400
EUVD-EUVD-2018-4049
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-4049

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