CVE-2018-17942 (GCVE-0-2018-17942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-03 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:01
VLAI
Summary
The convert_to_decimal function in vasnprintf.c in Gnulib before 2018-09-23 has a heap-based buffer overflow because memory is not allocated for a trailing '\0' character during %f processing.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-10-03 00:00
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