vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-15888
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 21, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 21, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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