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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-14271: Improper Initialization

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 29, 2019
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

In Docker 19.03.x before 19.03.1 linked against the GNU C Library (aka glibc), code injection can occur when the nsswitch facility dynamically loads a library inside a chroot that contains the contents of the container.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-docker
Title
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