Out-of-bounds writes via base64 length overflow
Published Jan 31, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Integer overflow in Apache APR-util 1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to write beyond buffer bounds through oversized base64 input. The apr_base64 length routines compute encoded or decoded sizes in signed integers without rejecting inputs beyond representable limits, so callers can allocate an undersized output buffer before data is written. Reachability depends on a consuming application passing attacker-controlled, extremely large base64 data to these functions; resulting memory corruption can crash the process or alter memory.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in Apache APR-util 1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to write beyond buffer bounds through oversized base64 input. The apr_base64 length routines compute encoded or decoded sizes in signed integers without rejecting inputs beyond representable limits, so callers can allocate an undersized output buffer before data is written. Reachability depends on a consuming application passing attacker-controlled, extremely large base64 data to these functions; resulting memory corruption can crash the process or alter memory.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-25147
- Published
- Jan 31, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APR-util)
- Classifications
- CWE-190, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 31, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.6.1
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