CVE-2022-39831 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2022-39831?

CVE-2022-39831 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 5 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This issue is different from CVE-2018-20230.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-39831?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnu Pspp.

How do I fix CVE-2022-39831?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-39831 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-39831 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39831, GHSA-mr7q-rmfw-cwhm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39831.