CVE-2022-23462
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-21 00:00
Modified
2025-04-22 17:18
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
IOWOW is a C utility library and persistent key/value storage engine. Versions 1.4.15 and prior contain a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for Denial of Service (DOS) when it parses scientific notation numbers present in JSON. A patch for this issue is available at commit a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fd in the `master` branch of the repository. There are no workarounds other than applying the patch.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/commit/a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fdPatch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-066_iowow/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/commit/a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fdPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-066_iowow/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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