Bug 1665538 (CVE-2018-20534) - CVE-2018-20534 libsolv: illegal address access in pool_whatprovides in src/pool.h
Summary: CVE-2018-20534 libsolv: illegal address access in pool_whatprovides in src/po...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-20534
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1665539 1670453 1670454
Blocks: 1665540
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-11 16:59 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-11-05 21:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 19:20:39 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2290 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:37:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3583 0 None None None 2019-11-05 21:15:01 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-11 16:59:13 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in libsolv through 0.7.2. There is an illegal address access at src/pool.h (function pool_whatprovides) in libsolv.a that will cause a denial of service.


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652604

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/291
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-11 16:59:42 UTC 
Created libsolv tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665539]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-01-29 14:56:52 UTC 
When function testcase_str2solvid() is called on a malformed input, pool may be not correctly initialized and pool->whatprovides may be NULL, causing the program to crash when accessing an illegal address in pool_whatprovides().
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:37:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2290
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:20:39 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-2018-20534
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:15:00 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:3583 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3583
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