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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-29923

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 7, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Go before 1.17 does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses, because of unexpected octal interpretation. This affects net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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