vulnerability

Arch Linux: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CVE-2022-38178)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 21, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed EdDSA signature, an attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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