UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10767

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10767
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10767.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10767
Upstream
Published
2018-05-06T23:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:47:00Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

There is a stack-based buffer over-read in calling GLib in the function gxpsimagesguesscontenttype of gxps-images.c in libgxps through 0.3.0 because it does not reject negative return values from a ginputstream_read call. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libgxps

Package

Name
libgxps
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgxps@0.2.3.2-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.3.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.2.3.2-1",
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-gxps-0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.2.3.2-1",
            "binary_name": "libgxps-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.2.3.2-1",
            "binary_name": "libgxps-utils"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.2.3.2-1",
            "binary_name": "libgxps2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / libgxps

Package

Name
libgxps
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgxps@0.3.0-2?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.0-1
0.3.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.3.0-2",
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-gxps-0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.3.0-2",
            "binary_name": "libgxps-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.3.0-2",
            "binary_name": "libgxps-utils"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.3.0-2",
            "binary_name": "libgxps2"
        }
    ]
}