CVE-2023-32181 (GCVE-0-2023-32181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-01 11:46 – Updated: 2025-01-10 18:39
VLAI
Title
Stack buffer overflow in "econf_writeFile" function
Summary
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf allows for DoS via malformed configuration files This issue affects libeconf: before 0.5.2.
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-10 18:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
openSUSE libeconf Affected: ? , < 0.5.2 (0.5.2)
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Credits
https://github.com/yangjiageng
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.