CVE-2023-4235 Memory corruption in Fedora

What is CVE-2023-4235?

CVE-2023-4235 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 17 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in ofono, an Open Source Telephony on Linux. A stack overflow bug is triggered within the decode_deliver_report() function during the SMS decoding. It is assumed that the attack scenario is accessible from a compromised modem, a malicious base station, or just SMS. There is a bound check for this memcpy length in decode_submit(), but it was forgotten in decode_deliver_report().

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4235?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ofono Project Ofono.

How do I fix CVE-2023-4235?

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-2023-4235 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4235 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4235, GHSA-442g-7r67-9534, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-4235.