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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-40617: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-40617: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/31/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

strongSwan before 5.9.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the revocation plugin by sending a crafted end-entity (and intermediate CA) certificate that contains a CRL/OCSP URL that points to a server (under the attacker's control) that doesn't properly respond but (for example) just does nothing after the initial TCP handshake, or sends an excessive amount of application data.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-strongswan

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