Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 1, 2023· Updated May 13, 2025
Stack buffer overflow in "read_file" function
CVE-2023-22652
Description
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf leads to DoS via malformed config files. This issue affects libeconf: before 0.5.2.
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Affected products
14- osv-coords12 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/libeconfpkg:rpm/opensuse/libeconf&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/libeconf&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/libeconf&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2
< 0.4.1-3.el9_2+ 11 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.4.1-3.el9_2
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150300.3.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150300.3.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150400.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150300.3.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.5.2-150300.3.11.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
5- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgimitre
- https//github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/177mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SDD5GL5T3V5XZ3VFA4HPE6YGJ2K4HHPC/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SMG5256D5I3GFA3RBAJQ2WYPJDYAIL74/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YAYW7X753Z6GOJKVLQPXBDHISN6ZT233/mitre
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