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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-43641: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-43641: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/09/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

libcue provides an API for parsing and extracting data from CUE sheets. Versions 2.2.1 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access. A user of the GNOME desktop environment can be exploited by downloading a cue sheet from a malicious webpage. Because the file is saved to `~/Downloads`, it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners use libcue to parse the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain code execution. This issue is patched in version 2.3.0.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libcue

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