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OESA-2023-1744 (CVE-2023-43641)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-10-20 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source website

Summary

libcue security update

Details

Libcue is intended for parsing a so-called cue sheet from a char string or a file pointer. For handling of the parsed data a convenient API is available.

Security Fix(es):

libcue provides an API for parsing and extracting data from CUE sheets. Versions 2.2.1 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access. A user of the GNOME desktop environment can be exploited by downloading a cue sheet from a malicious webpage. Because the file is saved to ~/Downloads, it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners use libcue to parse the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain code execution. This issue is patched in version 2.3.0.(CVE-2023-43641)

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43641	ADVISORY

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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "libcue-debuginfo-2.2.1-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcue-2.2.1-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcue-debugsource-2.2.1-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm",
          "libcue-devel-2.2.1-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm"
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        "src": [
          "libcue-2.2.1-2.oe2203.src.rpm"
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  },
  "details": "Libcue is intended for parsing a so-called cue sheet from a char string or a file pointer. For handling of the parsed data a convenient API is available.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nlibcue provides an API for parsing and extracting data from CUE sheets. Versions 2.2.1 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access. A user of the GNOME desktop environment can be exploited by downloading a cue sheet from a malicious webpage. Because the file is saved to `~/Downloads`, it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners use libcue to parse the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain code execution. This issue is patched in version 2.3.0.(CVE-2023-43641)",
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  ]
}

CVE-2023-43641 (GCVE-0-2023-43641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-09 21:01 – Updated: 2025-12-16 18:23

Title

libcue vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access

Summary

libcue provides an API for parsing and extracting data from CUE sheets. Versions 2.2.1 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access. A user of the GNOME desktop environment can be exploited by downloading a cue sheet from a malicious webpage. Because the file is saved to `~/Downloads`, it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners use libcue to parse the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain code execution. This issue is patched in version 2.3.0.

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-05-14 04:00 UTC

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://github.blog/2023-10-09-coordinated-disclo…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/lipnitsk/libcue/security/advis…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/lipnitsk/libcue/commit/cfb98a0…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/lipnitsk/libcue/commit/fdf72c8…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5524
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176128/libcu…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
lipnitsk	libcue	Affected: <= 2.2.1
lipnitsk	libcue	Affected: - , < <= 2.2.1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:lipnitsk:libcue:-:::::::*

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