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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-45492

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for m_groupSize on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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