Hyperscan Library Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Hyperscan library maintained by Intel® may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-29486

Description: Improper buffer restrictions in the Hyperscan library maintained by Intel® all versions downloaded before 04/29/2022 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via network access.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3 Medium****

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

Affected Products:

Hyperscan library maintained by Intel®, all versions downloaded before 04/29/2022.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Hyperscan library maintained by Intel®, to version 5.4.0 downloaded 04/29/2022 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: <https://github.com/intel/hyperscan&gt;

or

Users of old version can directly commit this change for the fix or the modify the source code manually: <https://github.com/intel/hyperscan/commit/3070f11991cc2014685a28c0eaa1e033ffa8fe30&gt;

Acknowledgements:

This issue found internally by Intel employee Brandon Marken.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.