NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting bibutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-BIBUTILS-283661
  • published7 May 2018
  • disclosed7 May 2018

Introduced: 7 May 2018

CVE-2018-10775  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:10 bibutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bibutils package and not the bibutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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