CVE-2022-39831

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Fedoraproject FedoraGNU Pspp
Timeline
PublishedSep 5
Latest updateSep 6

Description

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This issue is different from CVE-2018-20230.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianpspp< 1.6.2-2+2
▶NVDgnu/pspp1.6.2

Also affects: Fedora 36, 37

Patches

Patch: savannah.gnu.org ↗Patch: savannah.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-mr7q-rmfw-cwhm: An issue was discovered in PSPP 1↗2022-09-06
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CVEList
CVE-2022-39831: An issue was discovered in PSPP 1↗2022-09-05
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OSV
CVE-2022-39831: An issue was discovered in PSPP 1↗2022-09-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2022-39831: pspp - An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at ...↗2022
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