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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-43552

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 9, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A use after free vulnerability exists in curl <7.87.0. Curl can be asked to *tunnel* virtually all protocols it supports through an HTTP proxy. HTTP proxies can (and often do) deny such tunnel operations. When getting denied to tunnel the specific protocols SMB or TELNET, curl would use a heap-allocated struct after it had been freed, in its transfer shutdown code path.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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