[Snyk] Security upgrade alpine from 3.7 to 3.18.12

[howardfackrell]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 1 vulnerabilities in the dockerfile dependencies of this project.

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We recommend upgrading to alpine:3.18.12, as this image has only 0 known vulnerabilities. To do this, merge this pull request, then verify your application still works as expected.

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score
	Out-of-bounds Write SNYK-ALPINE37-MUSL-458286	714
	Out-of-bounds Write SNYK-ALPINE37-MUSL-458286	714

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Pull Request Overview

This PR upgrades the Alpine Linux base image from version 3.7 to 3.18.12 to address critical security vulnerabilities.

• Upgrades Alpine Linux base image from 3.7 to 3.18.12
• Fixes critical out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in musl library
• Maintains existing Dockerfile structure and functionality

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