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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-1981: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 26, 2023
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-avahi
Title
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