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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-38177: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-38177: 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
04/09/2024

Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA signature, an attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-bind

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