SB2023033033 - Denial of service in Facebook Zstandard 



SB2023033033 - Denial of service in Facebook Zstandard

Published: March 30, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023033033
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4899)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in util.c when processing empty arguments in the command line tool. A remote attacker can pass an empty string as an argument, trigger buffer underflow and crash the application.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.