Bug 1204615 (CVE-2022-3638)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2022-3638: nginx: memory leak for the "ipv4=off" case
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Thomas Leroy <thomas.leroy>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Felix Schnizlein <fschnizlein>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/345993/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Thomas Leroy 2022-10-24 07:30:15 UTC

CVE-2022-3638

A vulnerability was found in Nginx and classified as problematic. This issue
affects some unknown processing of the file ngx_resolver.c of the component IPv4
Off Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack may be initiated
remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier
VDB-211937 was assigned to this vulnerability.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2022-3638
https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/14341ce2377d38a268261e0fec65b6915ae6e95e
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3638
https://vuldb.com/?id.211937
http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/0422365794f7

Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2022-10-24 07:31:18 UTC

The commit introducing the leak is very recent and not shipped in our codestreams. Not affected, closing