NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting hwloc-gui package, versions <0:1.7-3.8.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-HWLOCGUI-5918366
  • published26 Sept 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2022-47022  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 hwloc-gui to version 0:1.7-3.8.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2023-1833.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hwloc-gui package and not the hwloc-gui package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in open-mpi hwloc 2.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via glibc-cpuset in topology-linux.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1