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Ubuntu: USN-5842-1 (CVE-2023-0341): EditorConfig Core C vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5842-1 (CVE-2023-0341): EditorConfig Core C vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/01/2023
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A stack buffer overflow exists in the ec_glob function of editorconfig-core-c before v0.12.6 which allowed an attacker to arbitrarily write to the stack and possibly allows remote code execution. editorconfig-core-c v0.12.6 resolved this vulnerability by bound checking all write operations over the p_pcre buffer.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-editorconfig
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libeditorconfig-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libeditorconfig0

References

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