Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kea package, versions <1.7.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE315-KEA-1928447
  • published29 Aug 2019
  • disclosed16 Oct 2019

Introduced: 29 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-6474  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.15 kea to version 1.7.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kea package and not the kea package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.15 relevant fixed versions and status.

A missing check on incoming client requests can be exploited to cause a situation where the Kea server's lease storage contains leases which are rejected as invalid when the server tries to load leases from storage on restart. If the number of such leases exceeds a hard-coded limit in the Kea code, a server trying to restart will conclude that there is a problem with its lease store and give up. Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, 1.6.0-beta1, and 1.6.0-beta2

CVSS Scores

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