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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-31872: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 30, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in klibc before 2.0.9. Multiple possible integer overflows in the cpio command on 32-bit systems may result in a buffer overflow or other security impact.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-klibc
Title
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