Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-24056 - Unspecified vulnerability in Pkgconf
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In pkgconf through 1.9.3, variable duplication can cause unbounded string expansion due to incorrect checks in libpkgconf/tuple.c:pkgconf_tuple_parse. For example, a .pc file containing a few hundred bytes can expand to one billion bytes.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://gitea.treehouse.systems/ariadne/pkgconf/commit/628b2b2bafa5d3a2017193ddf375093e70666059
- https://gitea.treehouse.systems/ariadne/pkgconf/commit/628b2b2bafa5d3a2017193ddf375093e70666059
- https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/tags
- https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/tags
- https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/01/18/
- https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/01/18/