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CVE-2018-20540

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

There is memory leak at liblas::Open (liblas/liblas.hpp) in libLAS 1.8.1.

Affected products

• libLAS: 1.8.1

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652612
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3TPVZSUWM5TEAMCBL3Y7QLGQSLCCJFIT/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFI3F3PRKPXOITWD47LF6ON4L5MJQQYM/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652612
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3TPVZSUWM5TEAMCBL3Y7QLGQSLCCJFIT/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFI3F3PRKPXOITWD47LF6ON4L5MJQQYM/

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