DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17942
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942
Upstream
Published
2018-10-03T08:29:00.430Z
Modified
2025-11-14T03:18:38.665599Z
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
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

Debian:11 / gnulib

Package

Name
gnulib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnulib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20140202+stable-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942.json"

Debian:12 / gnulib

Package

Name
gnulib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnulib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20140202+stable-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942.json"

Debian:13 / gnulib

Package

Name
gnulib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnulib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20140202+stable-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942.json"

Debian:14 / gnulib

Package

Name
gnulib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnulib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20140202+stable-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942.json"