What is CVE-2021-44568?

CVE-2021-44568 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Libsolv, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-02-21.

How severe is CVE-2021-44568?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Opensuse Libsolv

CVE-2021-44568

Two heap-overflow vulnerabilities exist in openSUSE/libsolv libsolv through 13 Dec 2020 in the decisionmap variable via the resolve_dependencies function at src/solver.c (line 1940 & line 1995), which could cause a remote Denial of Service.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.018 (76.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Opensuse Libsolv
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-44568?: CVE-2021-44568 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Libsolv, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-02-21.
How severe is CVE-2021-44568?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.