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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24056: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24056: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/22/2023
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

In pkgconf through 1.9.3, variable duplication can cause unbounded string expansion due to incorrect checks in libpkgconf/tuple.c:pkgconf_tuple_parse. For example, a .pc file containing a few hundred bytes can expand to one billion bytes.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pkgconf

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