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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-41229: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-41229: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/12/2021
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

BlueZ is a Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux. In affected versions a vulnerability exists in sdp_cstate_alloc_buf which allocates memory which will always be hung in the singly linked list of cstates and will not be freed. This will cause a memory leak over time. The data can be a very large object, which can be caused by an attacker continuously sending sdp packets and this may cause the service of the target device to crash.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-bluez

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