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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-22704: Missing Initialization of Resource

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 6, 2022
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Aug 8, 2025

Description

The zabbix-agent2 package before 5.4.9-r1 for Alpine Linux sometimes allows privilege escalation to root because the design incorrectly expected that systemd would (in effect) determine part of the configuration.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-zabbix
Title
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