Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libiec61850  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBIEC61850-10078778
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed12 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19185  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in BerEncoder_encodeOctetString in mms/asn1/ber_encoder.c. This is exploitable even after CVE-2018-18834 has been patched, with a different dataSetValue sequence than the CVE-2018-18834 attack vector.