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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-2906

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:32 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2022-2906

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Sept 2022, 11:15 UTC

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

osv:CVE-2022-2906
Complete source record
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