PT-2018-15417 · Liblas · Liblas

Shuitao Gan · Published 2018-12-28 · Updated 2020-04-25 · CVE-2018-20536

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libLAS version 1.8.1

Description The issue is a heap-based buffer over-read that occurs at the GetGTIF() function in spatialreference.cpp, which can cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For libLAS version 1.8.1, consider disabling the GetGTIF() function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20536

Affected Products

Liblas

References · 9

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652610 · Exploit
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3TPVZSUWM5TEAMCBL3Y7QLGQSLCCJFIT · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20536 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFI3F3PRKPXOITWD47LF6ON4L5MJQQYM · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20536 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20536 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20536 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20536 · Security Note
• https://github.com/libLAS/libLAS/issues/161 · Note