GHSA-rm2x-hgr8-w343

LIEF vulnerable to denial of service through segmentation fault

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-40923

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	lief	<= 0.12.1	no fix listed

Details

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

A vulnerability in the LIEF::MachO::SegmentCommand::virtual_address function of LIEF v0.12.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) through a segmentation fault via a crafted MachO file. A [patch](https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF/commit/24935f654f6df700a9a062298258b9485f584502) is available at commit number 24935f654f6df700a9a062298258b9485f584502.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40923 advisory
https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF/issues/784 web
https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF/commit/24935f654f6df700a9a062298258b9485f584502 web
https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/lief/PYSEC-2022-43139.yaml web