vulnerability
Arch Linux: Improper Input Validation (CVE-2022-42012)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 9, 2022 | Jul 11, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 9, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
A message in non-native endianness with out-of-band Unix file descriptors would cause a use-after-free and possible memory corruption in production builds, or an assertion failure in debug builds.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2022-42012
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-42012
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-45112
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/417
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E4CO7N226I3X5FNBR2MACCH6TS764VJP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ND74SKN56BCYL3QLEAAB6E64UUBRA5UG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQCSLMCK2XGX23R2DKW2MSAICQAK6MT2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-08
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/06/1
- CWE-20
- EUVD-EUVD-2022-45112
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