Bug 1203127 (CVE-2022-39832)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2022-39832: pspp: heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_string in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Thomas Leroy <thomas.leroy>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	Ben Pfaff <blp>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P3 - Medium
Version:	Leap 15.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/341500/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Thomas Leroy 2022-09-05 15:30:48 UTC

rh#2124264

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_string in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Upstream ticket:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?63000

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124264
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2022-39832
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39832
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?63000

Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2022-09-05 15:32:31 UTC

No fix upstream afaics

Should be affected:
- openSUSE:Factory 
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP4
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3