Critical
patchelf — security advisory
Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc.
- Products
- patchelf
- Affected versions
- 0.14.3-1, 0.18.0-1, 0.18.0-1.1, 0.18.0-1.2, 0.18.0-1.3, 0.18.0-1.4
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-44940
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-44940
patchelf
Fixed versions: Not specified
patchelf
Fixed versions: Not specified
patchelf
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Complete source record
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