vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-25586

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 14, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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