839360 – (CVE-2022-1341) <net-analyzer/bwm-ng-0.6.3: OOB write if malloc fails

Bug 839360 (CVE-2022-1341) - <net-analyzer/bwm-ng-0.6.3: OOB write if malloc fails

Summary: <net-analyzer/bwm-ng-0.6.3: OOB write if malloc fails

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	CVE-2022-1341

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://github.com/vgropp/bwm-ng/issu...
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa?]
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Reported:	2022-04-19 02:09 UTC by John Helmert III
Modified:	2023-10-02 12:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description John Helmert III archtester

2022-04-19 02:09:08 UTC

CVE-2022-1341 (https://github.com/vgropp/bwm-ng/commit/9774f23bf78a6e6d3ae4cfe3d73bad34f2fdcd17):

An issue was discovered in in bwm-ng v0.6.2. An arbitrary null write exists in get_cmdln_options() function in src/options.c.

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2023-10-02 12:17:40 UTC

commit 4fe3d8f65ecf8f8864cd4fa95a8a15f1559304ba
Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Date:   Mon May 1 13:39:19 2023 +0100

    net-analyzer/bwm-ng: drop 0.6.2