PT-2018-15320 · Libpff · Libpff

Leonzhao7 · Published 2018-12-22 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-20348

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libpff versions prior to experimental-20180714

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite recursion, via a crafted file. This is related to the function libfdata tree get node value in libfdata tree.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to experimental-20180714, update to a version that includes the fix for the infinite recursion issue in libpff item tree create node.

Exploit

Fix

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20348

Affected Products

Libpff

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/libyal/libpff/issues/48 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20348 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20348 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20348 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20348 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20348 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20348 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20348 · Vendor Advisory