vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-22931: Improper Null Termination

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 16, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Node.js before 16.6.0, 14.17.4, and 12.22.4 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution, XSS, Application crashes due to missing input validation of host names returned by Domain Name Servers in Node.js dns library which can lead to output of wrong hostnames (leading to Domain Hijacking) and injection vulnerabilities in applications using the library.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejsalpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs-current
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