CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20534
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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
Affected configurations
• opensuse libsolv (<= 0.7.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00057.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2290 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3583 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652604 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120631 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/291 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3916-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00057.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2290 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3583 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652604 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120631 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/291 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3916-1/ Third Party Advisory