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CVE-2022-40320
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2022-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-125
Description
cfg_tilde_expand in confuse.c in libConfuse 3.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36, 37
- Libconfuse Project Libconfuse: 3.3
References
- https://github.com/libconfuse/libconfuse/issues/163
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BSAZK4KAWRWNAFUBBXOYU3PVNH3X7226/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EDUT2V62V2XF2IT5TJFPB6P3EQ6X5VLL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FJKHAPJ6AUWVP4HDGKH4M5A2XXWQI73O/
- https://github.com/libconfuse/libconfuse/issues/163
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BSAZK4KAWRWNAFUBBXOYU3PVNH3X7226/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EDUT2V62V2XF2IT5TJFPB6P3EQ6X5VLL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FJKHAPJ6AUWVP4HDGKH4M5A2XXWQI73O/
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