CVE-2022-23462

Summary

CVECVE-2022-23462
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-10-21 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-24 16:08:00 UTC
DescriptionIOWOW 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Softmotions Iowow All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
* Fixed Github Vulnerability Report GHSL-2022-066 · Softmotions/iowow@a79d31e · GitHub MISC github.com
GHSL-2022-066: Stack Buffer Overflow in iowow - CVE-2022-23462 | GitHub Security Lab CONFIRM securitylab.github.com
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