CVE-2018-20532

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20532
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-28 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-06 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_read) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Application Opensuse Libsolv All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3916-1: libsolv vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Fix: memory leaks, memory access, non used values by jrohel · Pull Request #291 · openSUSE/libsolv · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1927-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
1652605 – CVE-2018-20532 libsolv: NULL pointer dereference in function testcase_read [rhel-8] MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377449 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libsolv (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0072)
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