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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20534
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 di...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
libsolv
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.36-1"}]}]
Debian:13
libsolv
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.36-1"}]}]
Debian:14
libsolv
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.36-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org