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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-38177: Important: bind security update (ALSA-2022-6763)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-38177: Important: bind security update (ALSA-2022-6763)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/21/2022
Created
10/20/2022
Added
10/20/2022
Modified
04/18/2024

Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA signature, an attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-bind
  • alma-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • alma-upgrade-bind-devel
  • alma-upgrade-bind-dnssec-doc
  • alma-upgrade-bind-dnssec-utils
  • alma-upgrade-bind-libs
  • alma-upgrade-bind-license
  • alma-upgrade-bind-utils
  • alma-upgrade-python3-bind

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