CVE-2022-36039
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-36039 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Rizin versions <=0.4.0, discovered in August 2022. The vulnerability involves an out-of-bounds write when parsing DEX files in the dex.c component. This security flaw was patched in Rizin version 0.4.1 (GitHub Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) and involves multiple heap out-of-bounds write issues in the dex.c file. Two specific instances were identified: a heap buffer overflow of size 1 in dex.c:89:13 and another in dex.c:905:35. The issue occurs during DEX file parsing operations (GitHub Issue).

Impact

A successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's machine when opening a malicious DEX file. The severity is rated as High due to the potential for remote code execution (GitHub Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was fixed in Rizin version 0.4.1 with commit 1524f85. Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.4.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. For Gentoo users, the recommended action is to execute 'emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-util/rizin-0.4.1"' (Gentoo Security).

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