Bug 1577280 (CVE-2018-10775)

Summary:	CVE-2018-10775 bibutils: NULL pointer dereference in _fields_add function in fields.c in libbibcore.a
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	petersen
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Bug Depends On:	1577259, 1577260, 1577261, 1577262, 1577270, 1577271
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-11 15:13:46 UTC

A flaw was found in the _fields_add function in fields.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2. A NULL pointer dereference allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by end2xml.


References:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898135

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-11 15:14:53 UTC

Created bibutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1577261]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1577259]


Created ghc-hs-bibutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1577262]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1577260]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:05:27 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10775