vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-45322

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 6, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails. This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. NOTE: the vendor's position is "I don't think these issues are critical enough to warrant a CVE ID ... because an attacker typically can't control when memory allocations fail."

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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