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GHSA-h6xw-mghq-7523 Unsafe parsing in SWHKD

MEDIUM Published 2022-04-08 Modified 2022-04-15 Official page ↗

Aliases: CVE-2022-27819
Ecosystem: crates.io
Packages: Simple-Wayland-HotKey-Daemon
Severity: Moderate
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-400, CWE-770
Reviewed: 2022-04-08

Affected packages

• crates.io Simple-Wayland-HotKey-Daemon: < 1.2.0 → fixed in 1.2.0

Description

SWHKD 1.1.5 allows unsafe parsing via the -c option. An information leak might occur but there is a simple denial of service (memory exhaustion) upon an attempt to parse a large or infinite file (such as a block or character device).

Alias · CVE (1)

CVE-2022-27819 SWHKD 1.1.5 allows unsafe parsing via the -c option. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27819 advisory
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/commit/b4e6dc76f4845ab03104187a42ac6d1bbc1e0021 web
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd package
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases web
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases/tag/1.2.0 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/14/1 web