PT-2022-2352 · Fribidi+10 · Fribidi+10

P870613 · Published 2021-12-22 · Updated 2025-10-20 · CVE-2022-25309

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Fribidi (affected versions not specified)

Description A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Fribidi package, affecting the fribidi cap rtl to unicode() function. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a specially crafted file to the Fribidi application with the '--caprtl' option, leading to a crash and causing a denial of service. The exploitation of this flaw may also allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-787

CWE-122

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2022:7514

ALSA-2022:8011

ALT-PU-2022-1728

ALT-PU-2022-1742

AZL-10887

BDU:2022-02660

BDU:2022-03127

CESA-2022_7514

CVE-2022-25309

DLA-2974-1

INFSA-2022_8011

JLSEC-2025-171

MGASA-2022-0136

OESA-2022-1923

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_1844-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_1898-1

RHSA-2022:7514

RHSA-2022:8011

RHSA-2022_7514

RHSA-2022_8011

RLSA-2022:7514

RLSA-2022:8011

SUSE-SU-2022:1844-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1845-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1898-1

SUSE-SU-2022:2029-1

USN-5366-1

USN-5366-2

USN-5922-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Almalinux

Astra Linux

Centos

Fribidi

Linuxmint

Red Hat

Red Os

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 87

• 🔥 https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/182 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047896 · Exploit
• https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/commit/f22593b82b5d1668d1997dbccd10a9c31ffea3b3 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5922-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-25308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25309 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-25309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/KXPSWMHAII3BETNRQAOH2TQ7ZPJAMEDT · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:2029-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5366-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2022-25309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-25309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28049 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1844-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0136.html · Security Note