vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-8927
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) | Sep 15, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 15, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library versions prior to 1.0.8 where an attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. It is recommended to update your Brotli library to 1.0.8 or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the "streaming" API as opposed to the "one-shot" API, and impose chunk size limits.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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