CVE-2022-25308

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-121

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Fribidi package. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a specially crafted file to the Fribidi application, which leads to a possible memory leak or a denial of service.

Affected products

GNU Fribidi: before 1.0.12 — fixed in 1.0.12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0, 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU Fribidi 1.0.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25308
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047890
https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/181
https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/pull/184
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25308
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047890
https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/181
https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/pull/184

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