vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-30631

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 9, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in Reader.Read in compress/gzip before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via an archive containing a large number of concatenated 0-length compressed files.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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