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Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-49179: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:C)
Published
Jun 17, 2025
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the X Record extension. The RecordSanityCheckRegisterClients function does not check for an integer overflow when computing request length, which allows a client to bypass length checks.

Solutions

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