A vulnerability was found in upstream release cryptsetup-2.2.0 where, there's a bug in LUKS2 format validation code, that is effectively invoked on every device/image presenting itself as LUKS2 container. The bug is in segments validation code in file 'lib/luks2/luks2_json_metadata.c' in function hdr_validate_segments(struct crypt_device cd, json_object hdr_jobj) where the code does not check for possible overflow on memory allocation used for intervals array (see statement "intervals = malloc(first_backup sizeof(intervals));"). Due to the bug, library can be tricked to expect such allocation was successful but for far less memory then originally expected.

Later it may read data FROM image crafted by an attacker and actually write such data BEYOND allocated memory.