UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17942

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17942

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17942.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17942

Upstream

CVE-2018-17942

Published

2018-10-03T08:29:00Z

Modified

2026-03-24T10:45:43.554573Z

Severity

8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

The converttodecimal function in vasnprintf.c in Gnulib before 2018-09-23 has a heap-based buffer overflow because memory is not allocated for a trailing '\0' character during %f processing.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / gnulib

Package

Name: gnulib
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/gnulib@20140202+stable-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

20140202+stable-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

Affected versions

Other

20140202+stable-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "20140202+stable-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "git-merge-changelog"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "20140202+stable-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "gnulib"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17942.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / gnulib