CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-29693

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Published: Jun 02, 2022 | Modified: Jun 09, 2022
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Unicorn Engine v2.0.0-rc7 and below was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function uc_close at /my/unicorn/uc.c.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine * 2.0.0 (excluding)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0-rc1 (including) 2.0.0-rc1 (including)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0-rc2 (including) 2.0.0-rc2 (including)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0-rc3 (including) 2.0.0-rc3 (including)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0-rc4 (including) 2.0.0-rc4 (including)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0-rc5 (including) 2.0.0-rc5 (including)
Unicorn_engine Unicorn-engine 2.0.0-rc6 (including) 2.0.0-rc6 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
  • When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
  • To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References