Vulnerability · Published May 27, 2024 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2022-4969bwoodsend rockhopper Binary Parser ragged_array.c count_rows buffer overflow

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity buffer overflow in rockhopper from bwoodsend. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in bwoodsend rockhopper up to 0.1.2. Affected by this issue is the function count_rows of the file rockhopper/src/ragged_array.c of the component Binary Parser. The manipulation of the argument raw leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. Upgrading to version 0.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 1a15fad5e06ae693eb9b8908363d2c8ef455104e. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-266312.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
PyPIrockhopper0.2.0GHSA-4r4c-66gf-g9g5
PyPIrockhopper0.2.0PYSEC-2026-1875

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
bwoodsend rockhopper 0.1.00.1.10.1.2

Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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