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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-20534: libsolv: illegal address access in pool_whatprovides in src/pool.h

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-20534: libsolv: illegal address access in pool_whatprovides in src/pool.h

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/28/2018
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

There is an illegal address access at ext/testcase.c in libsolv.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue stating that the issue affects the test suite and not the underlying library. It cannot be exploited in any real-world application

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

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