EdDSA Signature Spoofing Vulnerability: Triggering Memory Leak and Resource Exhaustion in Target Resolver

CVE-2022-38178 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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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