GHSA-8m49-2xj8-67v9

Data Loss/Denial of Service in SWHKD

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-27816

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	Simple-Wayland-HotKey-Daemon	< 1.2.0	1.2.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

SWHKD 1.1.5 unsafely uses the /tmp/swhks.pid pathname. There can be data loss or a denial of service. A patch is available on the `1.1.0` branch of the repository.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27816 advisory
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/commit/0b620a09605afb815c6d8d8953bbb7a10a8c0575 web
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd package
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases/tag/1.2.0 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/14/1 web