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Bug 839360 (CVE-2022-1341)

Summary: <net-analyzer/bwm-ng-0.6.3: OOB write if malloc fails
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: John Helmert III <ajak>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: netmon
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/vgropp/bwm-ng/issues/26
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa?]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 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 Security 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