CVE-2023-22652 - Stack buffer overflow in "read_file" function

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MEDIUM

Stack buffer overflow in "read_file" function

Published Jun 1, 2023

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.64%

Description

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.

Affected products

Vendor openSUSE Product Libeconf Default
unaffected
- Version
  ?
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <0.5.2

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

openSUSE

Libeconf

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
?	affected	<0.5.2

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	libeconf-0:0.4.1-3.el9_2	Fixed	RHSA-2023:4347

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-120

Classic Buffer Overflow

References (11)

Link	Providers	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-22652		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212463		Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22652		Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/177		exploit
https://https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/177		Broken Link
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00016.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SDD5GL5T3V5XZ3VFA4HPE6YGJ2K4HHPC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SMG5256D5I3GFA3RBAJQ2WYPJDYAIL74/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YAYW7X753Z6GOJKVLQPXBDHISN6ZT233/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22652
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22652