PT-2018-15421 · Liblas · Liblas

Nicholas Luedtke · Published 2018-12-28 · Updated 2020-04-25 · CVE-2018-20540

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 related to a memory leak at the liblas::Open function in liblas/liblas.hpp.

Recommendations For libLAS version 1.8.1, consider updating to a newer version that addresses the memory leak issue, if available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-772

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20540

Affected Products

Liblas

References · 9

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652612 · Exploit
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3TPVZSUWM5TEAMCBL3Y7QLGQSLCCJFIT · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFI3F3PRKPXOITWD47LF6ON4L5MJQQYM · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20540 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20540 · Security Note
• https://github.com/libLAS/libLAS/issues/158 · Note