CVE-2024-38443 Denial of service in n/a
A segmentation fault in the binary insertion sort implementation causes a denial of service when sorting arrays, affecting applications using this C library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-38443?
CVE-2024-38443 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
C/sorting/binary_insertion_sort.c in The Algorithms - C through e5dad3f has a segmentation fault for deep recursion, which may affect common use cases such as sorting an array of 50 elements.
Weakness: CWE-121
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38443?
How do I fix CVE-2024-38443?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-38443 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-2024-38443 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-38443 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-438m-xg9x-7hw2.