vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-17942): gnulib vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 3, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-gnulib
Title
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