Buffer Overread CVE-2022-2881: Potential Info Disclosure or Crash
CVE-2022-2881 Published on September 21, 2022
Buffer overread in statistics channel code
The underlying bug might cause read past end of the buffer and either read memory it should not read, or crash the process.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-2881 can be exploited with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Out-of-bounds Read
The software reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can allow attackers to read sensitive information from other memory locations or cause a crash. A crash can occur when the code reads a variable amount of data and assumes that a sentinel exists to stop the read operation, such as a NUL in a string. The expected sentinel might not be located in the out-of-bounds memory, causing excessive data to be read, leading to a segmentation fault or a buffer overflow. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent read operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-2881
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Affected Versions
ISC BIND9:- Version Open Source Branch 9.18 9.18.0 through versions before 9.18.7 is affected.
- Version Development Branch 9.19 9.19.0 through versions before 9.19.5 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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