CVE-2015-1783 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Lasso

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-456 — Missing Initialization of a Variable7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Entrouvert LassoDebian LassoFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedAug 11
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/lasso< lasso 2.4.1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianentrouvert/lasso< 2.4.1-1+3
▶NVDentrouvert/lasso2.4.0

Also affects: Fedora 20, 21, 22

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: repos.entrouvert.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h78r-gxwp-4fvm: The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd allows remote attackers to cause↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-1783: The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd allows remote attackers to cause↗2017-08-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
lasso: use of uninitialized value leading to a crash↗2015-03-09
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Debian
CVE-2015-1783: lasso - The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d85...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-1783 lasso: use of uninitialized value leading to a crash↗2015-03-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-1783 lasso: use of uninitialized value leading to a crash [fedora-all]↗2015-03-09
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