Out-of-Bounds Affecting lasso package, versions <2.4.1-1
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- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed11 Aug 2017
Introduced: 11 Aug 2017
CVE-2015-1783 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:14 lasso to version 2.4.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lasso package and not the lasso package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.
The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and application crash) via unspecified vectors.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1783
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154321.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154355.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155382.html
- https://repos.entrouvert.org/lasso.git/commit/lasso/xml?id=6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199925