CVE-2022-25310: gnu fribidi
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-25310 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in gnu fribidi. EPSS estimates a 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 11 · Related 7Timeline
- 06-09-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A segmentation fault (SEGV) flaw was found in the Fribidi package and affects the fribidi_remove_bidi_marks() function of the lib/fribidi.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a specially crafted file to Fribidi, leading to a crash and causing a denial of service.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.48%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
40%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.48% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
2 foundFribidi
Maturity: poc
Exploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root cause- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
- CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceThe product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected systems
Alpine1 product
- fribidi< 1.0.12-r0
Debian1 product
- fribidi< 1.0.8-2.1
Gnu1 product
- fribidi< 1.0.12
Redhat1 product
- enterprise_linux8.0 | 9.0
Ubuntu1 product
- fribidiAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.19.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 0.19.7-2ubuntu0.1 | < 1.0.8-2ubuntu0.1 | < 1.0.8-2ubuntu3.1
5 vendors · 5 products
References
13 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047923X Refsource MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
