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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cockpit-packagekit  (opens in a new tab)

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0.42% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-COCKPITPACKAGEKIT-3050397
  • published15 Oct 2022
  • disclosed6 Feb 2022
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Introduced: 6 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-3517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cockpit-packagekit package and not the cockpit-packagekit package as distributed by Centos.

A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.

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