vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-20907

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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