Vulnerability · Published Dec 21, 2022 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2022-4639sslh Packet Dumping probe.c hexdump format string
Medium 5.6
In plain English
A medium-severity memory corruption in sslh from unspecified. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 61% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in sslh. This issue affects the function hexdump of the file probe.c of the component Packet Dumping Handler. The manipulation of the argument msg_info leads to format string. The attack may be initiated remotely. The name of the patch is b19f8a6046b080e4c2e28354a58556bb26040c6f. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-216497 was assigned to this vulnerability.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | sslh | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4639 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | sslh | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4639 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | sslh | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4639 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | sslh | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4639 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| unspecified | sslh | n/a |
Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L