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CVE-2018-20004

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

Published

2018-12-10T06:29:00.303

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:00:43.920

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mini-xml_project	mini-xml	2.12	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	28	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	29	Yes

References

https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/mxml#stack-buffer-overflow-in-function-mxml_write_node Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/mxml/issues/233 Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N53IJHDYR5HVQLKH4J6B27OEQLGKSGY5/ ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RNWF6BAU7S42O4LE4B74KIMHFE2HDNMI/ ([email protected])
https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/mxml#stack-buffer-overflow-in-function-mxml_write_node Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/mxml/issues/233 Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N53IJHDYR5HVQLKH4J6B27OEQLGKSGY5/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RNWF6BAU7S42O4LE4B74KIMHFE2HDNMI/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)