CVE-2022-44940

Publication date 19 December 2022

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
patchelf	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 0.14.3-1ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 0.14.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

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version 0.10 and earlier require extensive backport

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
patchelf	Upstream: b751eeb

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H