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CVE-2022-23462
high
Description
IOWOW is a C utility library and persistent key/value storage engine. Versions 1.4.15 and prior contain a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for Denial of Service (DOS) when it parses scientific notation numbers present in JSON. A patch for this issue is available at commit a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fd in the `master` branch of the repository. There are no workarounds other than applying the patch.
References
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-066_iowow/
https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/commit/a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fd