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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-34161: Use After Free

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/29/2024
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module and the network infrastructure supports a Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of 4096 or greater without fragmentation, undisclosed QUIC packets can cause NGINX worker processes to leak previously freed memory.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nginx

References

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