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CVE-2023-22652
Stack buffer overflow in "read_file" function
Low3.3EPSS 0.64%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- suse
Description
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf leads to DoS via malformed config files. This issue affects libeconf: before 0.5.2.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| suseCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.64% · top 49% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Weakness
Affected products
References (7)
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22652 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/177 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SMG5256D5I3GFA3RBAJQ2WYPJDYAIL74/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SDD5GL5T3V5XZ3VFA4HPE6YGJ2K4HHPC/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YAYW7X753Z6GOJKVLQPXBDHISN6ZT233/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00016.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/177 (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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