CVE-2018-20532 Information

Description

There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_read) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00057.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2290 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652605 https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/291 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3916-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5