CVE-2023-49287

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in tinydir

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Dec 4, 2023
Updated: May 29, 2025
Reserved: Nov 24, 2023

Description

TinyDir is a lightweight C directory and file reader. Buffer overflows in the `tinydir_file_open()` function. This vulnerability has been patched in version 1.2.6.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tinydircxong	< 1.2.6Affected

References

https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/security/advisories/GHSA-jf5r-wgf4-qhxf
https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/releases/tag/1.2.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/04/1
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176060/TinyDir-1.2.5-Buffer-Overflow.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/14

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