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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-7183

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 8, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the decodearr function in ntpq in ntp 4.2.8p6 through 4.2.8p10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an ntpq query and sending a response with a crafted array.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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