PT-2018-18072 · Freexl+2 · Freexl+2

Leon · Published 2018-02-23 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-7438

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 FreeXL versions prior to 1.0.5

Description A problem has been discovered in FreeXL, where there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the parse unicode string function. This issue affects versions prior to 1.0.5.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.5, update to version 1.0.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the parse unicode string function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1676

CVE-2018-7438

DLA-1297-1

DSA-4129-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0569-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0570-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_0570-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10771-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Freexl

Suse

References · 31

• 🔥 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spatialite-users/b-d9iB5TDPE · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547889 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:0569-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4129-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7438 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10771-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4129 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:0570-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7438 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7438 · Vendor Advisory