vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-14973

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 14, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

_TIFFCheckMalloc and _TIFFCheckRealloc in tif_aux.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.10 mishandle Integer Overflow checks because they rely on compiler behavior that is undefined by the applicable C standards. This can, for example, lead to an application crash.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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