CVE-2018-17942

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

2.49%

Published

Oct 3, 2018

Modified

Nov 21, 2024

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

The convert_to_decimal 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

Affected Products (1)

gnu · gnulib (up to 2018-09-23)vulnerable

References (10)

https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/278b4175c9d7dd47c1a3071554aac02add3b3c35

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5UQRNQE6XHMD5UYYHAU3VQWAYHIPMQS/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMGHTVYH3KAFN34QXNSGEQDSTV7MCOQW/

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-09/msg00107.html

ExploitMailing ListVendor Advisory

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=54686

ExploitVendor Advisory