🛡️ CVE-2022-38178
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-401 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-401
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-21
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-05-28

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager — —
bind — —
debian-linux — —
fedora — —

References

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38178
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38178

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