vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-44717

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 1, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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