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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-51258: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-51258: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/18/2024
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

A memory leak issue discovered in YASM v.1.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the new_Token function in the modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp:1512.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-yasm

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