Out-of-bounds Read Affecting dbus-broker package, versions <30-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.29% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-DBUSBROKER-11740399
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed17 Jul 2022

Introduced: 17 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-31212  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 dbus-broker to version 30-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dbus-broker package and not the dbus-broker package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in dbus-broker before 31. It depends on c-uitl/c-shquote to parse the DBus service's Exec line. c-shquote contains a stack-based buffer over-read if a malicious Exec line is supplied.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1