USN-6970-1

It was discovered that exfatprogs incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into handling specially crafted exfat partitions, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause exfatprogs to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / exfatprogs

Package

Name: exfatprogs
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/exfatprogs@1.1.3-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.1.3-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.0-1

1.1.2-2

1.1.3-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "exfatprogs",
            "binary_version": "1.1.3-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-6970-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2023-45897"
        }
    ]
}