Bug 1665309 (CVE-2018-20541)

Summary:	CVE-2018-20541 libxsmm: heap-based buffer overflow in libxsmm_sparse_csc_reader at generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dave.love, dominik
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Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 22:38:14 UTC

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


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652632
https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/issues/287

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/commit/151481489192e6d1997f8bde52c5c425ea41741d

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 22:38:30 UTC

Created libxsmm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1665311]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665310]

Comment 2 Dave Love 2020-08-12 11:46:22 UTC

Should have been closed as invalid security issue