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alsa-2023:4347

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2023-08-01 00:00

Modified

2023-08-02 13:47

Summary

Moderate: libeconf security update

Details

Libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from different directories and builds the final configuration file from it.

Security Fix(es):

libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c (CVE-2023-22652)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

URL

Type

	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4347	ADVISORY
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-22652	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2212463	REPORT
	https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-4347.html	ADVISORY

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CVE-2023-22652 (GCVE-0-2023-22652)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-01 11:51 – Updated: 2025-05-13 00:11

Title

Stack buffer overflow in "read_file" function

Summary

A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf leads to DoS via malformed config files. This issue affects libeconf: before 0.5.2.

Severity ?

3.3 (Low)


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

CWE

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

suse

References

URL

Tags

	https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-202…
	https://https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/177
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	openSUSE	libeconf	Affected: ? , < 0.5.2 (0.5.2)

Credits

https://github.com/yangjiageng

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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