mchehab/zbar · Security
Heap-based buffer overflow in ZBar
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mhp6-jvpx-2p4m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-40889
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the qr_reader_match_centers function of ZBar 0.23.90. Specially crafted QR codes may lead to information disclosure and/or arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can digitally input the malicious QR code, or prepare it to be physically scanned by the vulnerable scanner.
CWEs
- CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40889 ↗
- https://hackmd.io/@cspl/B1ZkFZv23 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00001.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/25LZZQJGGZRPLKTRNRNOTAFQJIPS7WRP/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DC7V5YCLCPB36J2KY6WLZCABFLBRB665/ ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mhp6-jvpx-2p4m ↗