Buffer overflow in libapreq2 - CVE-2022-22728
Published: August 27, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU66788
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22728
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing multipart form uploads. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
libapreq2
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
libapreq2
www-apache/libapreq2
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
libapreq2
www-apache/libapreq2
How to mitigate CVE-2022-22728
Install updates from vendor's website.
libapreq2 - update to 2.17
libapreq2 - update to 2.13-38.3
www-apache/libapreq2 - update to 2.17
libapreq2 - addressed in versions 2.17-1.el7, 2.17-1.el8, 2.17-1.fc35, 2.17-1.fc36, 2.17-1.fc37
libapreq2 - update to 2.13-38.3
www-apache/libapreq2 - update to 2.17
libapreq2 - addressed in versions 2.17-1.el7, 2.17-1.el8, 2.17-1.fc35, 2.17-1.fc36, 2.17-1.fc37