CVE-2018-9988

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9988
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9988.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-9988
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (2)
Published
2018-04-10T19:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-20T13:37:10Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ARM mbed TLS before 2.1.11, before 2.7.2, and before 2.8.0 has a buffer over-read in ssl_parse_server_key_exchange() that could cause a crash on invalid input.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "8.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "8.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "introduced":  "9.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "9.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
1c986a9859f9456af999d16ba5056914669689fc
Introduced
32605dc83042d737e715a685e53176388d73540e
Fixed
9ae1fba869657bea7ec419412b1c26ed59eb7cd3
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "2.1.11"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "2.7.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "2.7.2"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
beta-oob-2
mbedtls-2.*
mbedtls-2.0.0
mbedtls-2.1.0
mbedtls-2.1.1
mbedtls-2.1.10
mbedtls-2.1.11-rc1
mbedtls-2.1.2
mbedtls-2.1.3
mbedtls-2.1.4
mbedtls-2.1.5
mbedtls-2.1.6
mbedtls-2.1.8
mbedtls-2.1.9
mbedtls-2.1.9-rc1
mbedtls-2.7.0
mbedtls-2.7.1
mbedtls-2.7.2-rc1
polarssl-1.*
polarssl-1.2.0
polarssl-1.2.1
polarssl-1.2.2
polarssl-1.2.4
polarssl-1.2.5
polarssl-1.2.6
polarssl-1.3.0
polarssl-1.3.0-rc0
polarssl-1.3.1
polarssl-1.3.2
polarssl-1.3.3
polarssl-1.3.4
polarssl-1.3.5
polarssl-1.3.6
polarssl-1.3.7
polarssl-1.3.8
polarssl-1.3.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9988.json"

Git / github.com/mbed-tls/mbedtls

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mbed-tls/mbedtls
Events
Introduced
79a5e72719cb23daee6e0e55f7b85659bb3a89b8
Last Affected
79a5e72719cb23daee6e0e55f7b85659bb3a89b8
Fixed
027f84c69f4ef30c0693832a6c396ef19e563ca1
Fixed
a1098f81c252b317ad34ea978aea2bc47760b215
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:trustedfirmware:mbed_tls:2.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "2.8.0-rc1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "2.8.0-rc1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "027f84c69f4ef30c0693832a6c396ef19e563ca1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "a1098f81c252b317ad34ea978aea2bc47760b215"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.8.0-rc1
mbedtls-2.*
mbedtls-2.8.0-rc1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9988.json"
vanir_signatures 
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            ],
            "threshold":  0.9
        },
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        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/mbed-tls/mbedtls/commit/a1098f81c252b317ad34ea978aea2bc47760b215",
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            "file":  "library/ssl_cli.c",
            "function":  "ssl_parse_server_key_exchange"
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-10-20T13:37:10Z"