vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-36976

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jul 20, 2021

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and process_block).

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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