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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-2182

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 12, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Open Virtual Network (OVN). In OVN clusters where BFD is used between hypervisors for high availability, an attacker can inject specially crafted BFD packets from inside unprivileged workloads, including virtual machines or containers, that can trigger a denial of service.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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