CVE-2018-20534

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20534
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-28 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:56:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** There is an illegal address access at ext/testcase.c in libsolv.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue stating that the issue affects the test suite and not the underlying library. It cannot be exploited in any real-world application.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

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
1652604 – There is an illegal address access at src/pool.h:331 pool_whatprovides in libsolv. MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
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
Bug 1120631 – VUL-1: CVE-2018-20534: libsolv: illegal address access at src/pool.h (function pool_whatprovides) in libsolv.a CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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)
  • 940335 AlmaLinux Security Update for yum (ALSA-2019:3583)
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