Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium ALSA-2023:4347 1 CVE

Moderate: libeconf security update

Published Aug 1, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from different directories and builds the final configuration file from it.

Security Fix(es):

* libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c (CVE-2023-22652)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 libeconf 0.4.1-3.el9_2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Low 3.3

    Stack buffer overflow in "read_file" function

    A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf leads to DoS via malformed config files. This issue affects libeconf: before 0.5.2.

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-22652
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2212463
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-4347.html