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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-14834

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 7, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in dnsmasq before version 2.81, where the memory leak allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DHCP response creation.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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