CVE-2018-10111 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service via unbounded memory allocation in the GEGL library, crashing the application.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-10111?
CVE-2018-10111 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in GEGL through 0.3.32. The render_rectangle function in process/gegl-processor.c has unbounded memory allocation, leading to a denial of service (application crash) upon allocation failure.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10111?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gegl Gegl.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10111?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10111 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-10111 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10111 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10111, GHSA-hgwq-xhxh-fqj5, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10111.