CVE-2022-0699

Publication date 17 October 2022

Last updated 3 November 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

A double-free condition exists in contrib/shpsort.c of shapelib 1.5.0 and older releases. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impact via control over malloc.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
shapelib 26.10 stonking
Not affected
26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed in 1.5.0-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed in 1.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed in 1.4.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed in 1.3.0-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-8992-1
    • Shapelib vulnerability
    • 3 November 2026

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