UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20004

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20004
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20004.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20004
Upstream
Published
2018-12-10T06:29:00Z
Modified
2026-04-22T11:27:57Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / mxml

Package

Name
mxml
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mxml@2.9-0ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2.*
2.7-1
2.9-0ubuntu1
2.9-0ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml1",
            "binary_version": "2.9-0ubuntu2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20004.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / mxml

Package

Name
mxml
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mxml@2.10-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2.*
2.10-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.10-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml1",
            "binary_version": "2.10-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20004.json"