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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-4540: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-4540: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/05/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-lua-http

References

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