CVE-2022-38178

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.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-401, CWE-401

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3
• https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38178
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00007.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…