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OESA-2023-1388 (CVE-2023-33461)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-07-01 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

iniparser security update

Details

This modules offers parsing of ini files from the C level. See a complete documentation in HTML format, from this directory open the file html/index.html with any HTML-capable browser.

Security Fix(es):

iniparser v4.1 is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in function iniparser_getlongint which misses check NULL for function iniparser_getstring's return.(CVE-2023-33461)

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33461	ADVISORY

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    "severity": "Medium"
  },
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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:05:51Z",
  "published": "2023-07-01T11:05:51Z",
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  ]
}

CVE-2023-33461 (GCVE-0-2023-33461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-01 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-09 16:26

Summary

iniparser v4.1 is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in function iniparser_getlongint which misses check NULL for function iniparser_getstring's return.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-09 16:23 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ndevilla/iniparser/issues/144
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory

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