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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-2929: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-2929: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/07/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

In ISC DHCP 1.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 a system with access to a DHCP server, sending DHCP packets crafted to include fqdn labels longer than 63 bytes, could eventually cause the server to run out of memory.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-dhcp

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