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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-40305: Out-of-bounds Write

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Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Aug 14, 2023

Added

Mar 21, 2024

Modified

Mar 22, 2024

Description

GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-indent

References

Rapid7 Labs

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