vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-9073

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 24, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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