vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15094: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 23, 2018 | Jan 23, 2018 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2018
Added
Jan 23, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled by setting dnssec to a value other than off or process-no-validate (default).
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-pdns-recursor
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