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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-33195

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 2, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Go before 1.15.13 and 1.16.x before 1.16.5 has functions for DNS lookups that do not validate replies from DNS servers, and thus a return value may contain an unsafe injection (e.g., XSS) that does not conform to the RFC1035 format.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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