Use-after-free in LibSass - CVE-2018-19827

 

Use-after-free in LibSass - CVE-2018-19827

Published: December 3, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36345
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19827
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

In LibSass 3.5.5, a use-after-free vulnerability exists in the SharedPtr class in SharedPtr.cpp (or SharedPtr.hpp) that may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.


Affected software

LibSass
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
IBM Security Verify Information Queue
IBM Edge Application Manager
IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D
QRadar User Behavior Analytics
IBM QRadar Data Synchronization App

How to mitigate CVE-2018-19827

Install update from vendor's website.

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace - update to 2.0.93
IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D - update to 2.6.0
IBM QRadar Data Synchronization App - update to 3.2.1
QRadar User Behavior Analytics - update to 4.1.11
IBM Security Verify Information Queue - update to 10.0.0

External References

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