PT-2018-9389
CVE-2018-1000221
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Published
2018-08-20
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Updated
2018-10-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
9.8
CriticalMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
pkgconf versions 1.5.0 through 1.5.2
Description
The issue is related to a Buffer Overflow in the
dequote() function, which can return a 1-byte allocation if the initial length is 0, leading to a buffer overflow. This can be exploited via a specially crafted .pc file.Recommendations
For pkgconf versions 1.5.0 through 1.5.2, update to version 1.5.3 to resolve the issue.
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