Out-of-bounds Write Affecting lipnitsk/libcue package, versions [,2.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
17.19% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIPNITSKLIBCUE-5952862
  • published11 Oct 2023
  • disclosed9 Oct 2023
  • creditKevin Backhouse

Introduced: 9 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-43641  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lipnitsk/libcue to version 2.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write when the libcue API is used to parse and extract data from CUE sheets. An attacker can gain code execution by tricking a user into downloading a malicious cue sheet from a webpage.

Note: This is only exploitable if the file is saved to ~/Downloads and automatically scanned by tracker-miners.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1