Out-of-bounds Read Affecting patchelf package, versions [,0.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.08% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-PATCHELF-10078089
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed20 Dec 2022
  • creditxiaoxiaoafeifei

Introduced: 20 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-44940  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade patchelf to version 0.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1