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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-2757: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-2757: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/29/2024
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

In PHP 8.3.* before 8.3.5, function mb_encode_mimeheader() runs endlessly for some inputs that contain long strings of non-space characters followed by a space. This could lead to a potential DoS attack if a hostile user sends data to an application that uses this function. 

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-php83

References

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