vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-20534

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 28, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

There is an illegal address access at ext/testcase.c in libsolv.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue stating that the issue affects the test suite and not the underlying library. It cannot be exploited in any real-world application

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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