Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-BIND-5846411
  • published21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed21 Sept 2022

Introduced: 21 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-2906  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind package and not the bind package as distributed by Chainguard.

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.