GHSA-h6xw-mghq-7523

Unsafe parsing in SWHKD

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-27819

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 allows unsafe parsing via the -c option. An information leak might occur but there is a simple denial of service (memory exhaustion) upon an attempt to parse a large or infinite file (such as a block or character device).

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27819 advisory
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/commit/b4e6dc76f4845ab03104187a42ac6d1bbc1e0021 web
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd package
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases web
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases/tag/1.2.0 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/14/1 web