CVE-2022-36938: Critical severity facebook redex vulnerability

Published Nov 10, 2022
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Updated

DexLoader function getstringidxfromdex() in Redex prior to commit 3b44c64 can load an out of bound address when loading the string index table, potentially allowing remote code execution during processing of a 3rd party Android APK file.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Facebook Redex<2022-11-04

Remediation

Patch Available

https://github.com/facebook/redex/commit/3b44c640346b77bfb7ef36e2413688dd460288d2

Event History

Nov 10, 2022
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
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