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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-2906: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-2906: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/21/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-bind

References

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