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CVE-2018-20534
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
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
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.10
- OpenSUSE libsolv: through 0.7.2
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00057.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2290
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3583
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652604
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120631
- https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/291
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3916-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00057.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2290
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3583
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652604
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120631
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