CVE-2018-20542

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20542
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-28 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-01-11 17:44:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is a heap-based buffer-overflow at generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c (function libxsmm_sparse_csc_reader) in LIBXSMM 1.10, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-20541 (which is in a different part of the source code and is seen at a different address).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libxsmm Project Libxsmm 1.10 All All All
Application Libxsmm Project Libxsmm 1.10 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Issue #287: made CSR/CSC readers more robust against invalid input (c… · hfp/libxsmm@1514814 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
reported buffer overflows · Issue #287 · hfp/libxsmm · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
1652633 – There is a heap-buffer-overflow at src/generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c:178(function libxsmm_sparse_csc_reader) that allocated at src/generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c:125 in libxsmm. MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
1652635 – There is a heap-buffer-overflow that the heap is allocated at src/generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c:125 and triggered at function libxsmm_sparse_csc_reader in libxsmm. MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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