GHSA-xwh4-p62h-wq65

GHSA-xwh4-p62h-wq65 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.800000190734863 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

8.800000190734863

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

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5UQRNQE6XHMD5UYYHAU3VQWAYHIPMQS url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17942 advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMGHTVYH3KAFN34QXNSGEQDSTV7MCOQW url
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-09/msg00107.html url
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=54686 url
https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/278b4175c9d7dd47c1a3071554aac02add3b3c35 fix

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