CVE-2018-17942

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.

References

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=54686

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-09/msg00107.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMGHTVYH3KAFN34QXNSGEQDSTV7MCOQW/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5UQRNQE6XHMD5UYYHAU3VQWAYHIPMQS/

https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/278b4175c9d7dd47c1a3071554aac02add3b3c35

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3