SB2018041807 - Denial of service in GEGL
Published: April 18, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018041807
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Uncontrolled memory allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10113)
CWE-ID: CWE-789 - Uncontrolled Memory Allocation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the process function, as defined in the operations/external/ppm-load.c code file due to unbounded memory allocation. A local attacker can submit specially crafted input, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.