CVE-2023-24056

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-24056
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-22 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-03 16:47:00 UTC
DescriptionIn pkgconf through 1.9.3, variable duplication can cause unbounded string expansion due to incorrect checks in libpkgconf/tuple.c:pkgconf_tuple_parse. For example, a .pc file containing a few hundred bytes can expand to one billion bytes.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pkgconf Pkgconf All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Tags · pkgconf/pkgconf · GitHub MISC github.com
u-config: a new, lean pkg-config clone MISC nullprogram.com
tuple: test for, and stop string processing, on truncation · 628b2b2baf - pkgconf - Treehouse Gitea MISC gitea.treehouse.systems
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184177 Debian Security Update for pkgconf (CVE-2023-24056)
  • 355174 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for pkgconf : ALAS2023-2023-159
  • 502646 Alpine Linux Security Update for pkgconf
  • 502647 Alpine Linux Security Update for pkgconf
  • 502762 Alpine Linux Security Update for pkgconf
  • 672800 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1534)
  • 672808 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1559)
  • 672881 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1604)
  • 672901 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1787)
  • 672955 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1765)
  • 672978 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1876)
  • 672985 EulerOS Security Update for pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1851)
  • 905325 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for pkgconf (13124)
  • 905535 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for pkgconf (13124-1)

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