Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-38177: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
09/21/2022
04/09/2024
03/26/2024
10/02/2024
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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