CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-11099
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The header::add_INFO_descriptor function in header.cpp in VCFtools 0.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted vcf file.
Affected configurations
• vcftools project vcftools 0.1.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/May/43 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00039.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3974-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/May/43 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00039.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3974-1/ usn.ubuntu.com