CVE-2023-0909

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in cxasm notepad– 1.22. This affects an unknown part of the component Directory Comparison Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. The attack needs to be approached locally. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221475.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://gitee.com/cxasm/notepad--/issues/I6C80Z
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221475
• https://vuldb.com/?id.221475