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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-4048

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the CLARRV, DLARRV, SLARRV, and ZLARRV functions in lapack through version 3.10.0, as also used in OpenBLAS before version 0.3.18. Specially crafted inputs passed to these functions could cause an application using lapack to crash or possibly disclose portions of its memory.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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