CVE-2022-40280 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

A resource leak in the provisioning database manager allows attackers to cause a denial of service in Samsung TizenRT.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-40280?

CVE-2022-40280 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Sep 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Samsung TizenRT through 3.0_GBM (and 3.1_PRE). createDB in security/provisioning/src/provisioningdatabasemanager.c has a missing sqlite3_close after sqlite3_open_v2, leading to a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-772

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40280?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Tizenrt.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40280?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40280 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-40280 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4g8m-w5fr-hw5h.

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