Reachable Assertion in dbus - CVE-2022-42010

 

Reachable Assertion in dbus - CVE-2022-42010

Published: October 6, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67969
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42010
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Freedesktop.org
Affected software:
dbus

Detailed vulnerability description

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2022-42010

Install updates from vendor's website.

Sources