vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-41524

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 5, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025

Description

While fuzzing the 2.4.49 httpd, a new null pointer dereference was detected during HTTP/2 request processing, allowing an external source to DoS the server. This requires a specially crafted request. The vulnerability was recently introduced in version 2.4.49. No exploit is known to the project.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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