Trail of Bits

Arch Linux Pacman

Type

Security review

Client

The Open Technology Foundation (OTF)

Date

2023-12

Domain

AppSec

Effort

2 wks

Section

Technology Product Reviews

Trail of Bits's security review of The Open Technology Foundation (OTF) (Dec 2023) identified 9 issues: 1 low, 5 informational, and 3 undetermined.

Findings · 9

  1. 1 Use-after-free vulnerability in the print_packages function Low
  2. 2 Null pointer dereferences Informational
  3. 3 Allocation failures can lead to memory leaks or null pointer dereferences Informational
  4. 4 Buer overflow read in string_length utility function Undetermined
  5. 5 Undefined behavior or potential null pointer dereferences Undetermined
  6. 6 Undefined behavior from use of atoi Informational
  7. 7 Database parsers fail silently if an option is not recognized Informational
  8. 8 Cache cleaning function may delete the wrong files Informational
  9. 9 Integer underflow in a length check leads to out-of-bounds read in alpm_extract_keyid Undetermined

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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