Bug 1665312 (CVE-2018-20542) - CVE-2018-20542 libxsmm: heap-based buffer-overflow at generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c
Summary: CVE-2018-20542 libxsmm: heap-based buffer-overflow at generator_spgemm_csc_re...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-20542
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1665313 1665314
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-10 22:42 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:45:10 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 22:42:00 UTC 
A flaw was found in LIBXSMM 1.10. There is a heap-based buffer-overflow at generator_spgemm_csc_reader.c (function libxsmm_sparse_csc_reader), a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-20541 (which is in a different part of the source code and is seen at a different address).


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652633
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652635
https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/issues/287

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/commit/151481489192e6d1997f8bde52c5c425ea41741d
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 22:42:15 UTC 
Created libxsmm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1665314]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665313]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:45:10 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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