SB2022100645 - Multiple vulnerabilities in dbus
Published: October 6, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42010)
CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion in debug builds caused by a syntactically invalid type signature with incorrectly nested parentheses and curly brackets. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42011)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error caused by an invalid array of fixed-length elements where the length of the array is not a multiple of the length of the element. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read and gain access to sensitive information.
3) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42012)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/7
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/commit/9d07424e9011e3bbe535e83043d335f3093d2916
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/commit/079bbf16186e87fb0157adf8951f19864bc2ed69
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/commit/236f16e444e88a984cf12b09225e0f8efa6c5b44