CVE-2022-38177

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38177

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

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Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA 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.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38177
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5vfq-rv44-c5ff
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4GQWBPF7Y52J2FA24U6UMHQAOXZEF7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRHB6J4Z7BKH4HPEKG5D35QGRD6ANNMT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZJQNUASODNVAWZV6STKG5SD6XIJ446S/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38177
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00007.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-25
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221228-0010/
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5235

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