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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-37428: Incomplete Cleanup

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-37428: Incomplete Cleanup

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/23/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pdns-recursor

References

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