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CVE-2018-20541

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in libxsmm_sparse_csc_reader at generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c in LIBXSMM 1.10, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-20542 (which is in a different part of the source code and is seen at different addresses).

Affected products

• Libxsmm Project Libxsmm: 1.10

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652632
• https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/commit/151481489192e6d1997f8bde52c5c425ea41741d
• https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/issues/287
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652632
• https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/commit/151481489192e6d1997f8bde52c5c425ea41741d
• https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/issues/287

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