vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-2885: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Added
Apr 24, 2018
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a stack overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a special HTTP request to the vulnerable server to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libsoup
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