High
Security advisory
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.
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- CVE-2022-38178
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- 1 Nov 2026, 06:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2022-38178
Complete source record
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