vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-34558

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 15, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The crypto/tls package of Go through 1.16.5 does not properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type when doing a RSA based key exchange, allowing a malicious TLS server to cause a TLS client to panic.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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