PT-2018-17501 · Libming · Libming

Hle · Published 2018-01-27 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-6358

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libming versions prior to 0.4.8

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the printDefineFont2 function, located in util/listfdb.c. This may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or have an unspecified impact via a crafted FDB file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.4.8, update to version 0.4.8 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to crafted FDB files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6358

DLA-1343-1

MGASA-2019-0137

Affected Products

Libming

References · 12

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0137.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2019-0137 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/DCVKRTMEAJTXCYXNA53WZFPDF67TN7NC · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6358 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-24 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6358 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6358 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6358 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6358 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/104 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24505 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html · Note