CVE-2023-36328

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer Overflow vulnerability in mp_grow in libtom libtommath before commit beba892bc0d4e4ded4d667ab1d2a94f4d75109a9, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service (DoS).

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38, 39
Libtommath: before 1.2.1 — fixed in 1.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Libtommath 1.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/pull/546
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3H2PFUTBKQUDSOJXQQS7LUSZQWT3JTW2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/46GORAXZ34MHQNUGJBKS7PJ5NSMIAJGC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ZUPWZGPFJ4JOI2NIP7YLRKZD5YXQTBK/
https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/pull/546
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00011.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3H2PFUTBKQUDSOJXQQS7LUSZQWT3JTW2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/46GORAXZ34MHQNUGJBKS7PJ5NSMIAJGC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ZUPWZGPFJ4JOI2NIP7YLRKZD5YXQTBK/

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