CVE-2021-46168

Publication date 14 January 2022

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Spin v6.5.1 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds write in lex() at spinlex.c.

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
spin	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

fix is incomplete, it bumps up the array size but still does not apply a limit

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Package	Patch details
spin	Upstream: 62cf91c