vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-45417

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 20, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

AIDE before 0.17.4 allows local users to obtain root privileges via crafted file metadata (such as XFS extended attributes or tmpfs ACLs), because of a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
NEW

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