Medium
Security advisory
OctoRPKI tries to load the entire contents of a repository in memory, and in the case of a GZIP bomb, unzip it in memory, making it possible to create a repository that makes OctoRPKI run out of memory (and thus crash).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3912
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OctoRPKI tries to load the entire contents of a repository in memory, and in the case of a GZIP bomb, unzip it in memory, making it possible to create a repository that makes OctoRPKI run out of memory (and thus crash).
osv:CVE-2021-3912
Complete source record
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