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.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20004
Upstream
Published
2018-12-10T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:52:22.383620Z
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 mxmlwritenode in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / mxml

Package

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

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2.*

2.7-1
2.9-0ubuntu1
2.9-0ubuntu2

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / mxml

Package

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

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2.*

2.10-1

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / mxml

Package

Name
mxml
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mxml@2.12-2?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.12-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.12-2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml-bin-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.12-2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.12-2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml1",
            "binary_version": "2.12-2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmxml1-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.12-2"
        }
    ]
}