CVE-2018-10113 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service via unbounded memory allocation in the GEGL library's PPM loader, crashing the application.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-10113?
CVE-2018-10113 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 process function in operations/external/ppm-load.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-2018-10113?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (4)
gegl SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 | All versions | 0.2.0-15.3.99 |
gegl SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | All versions | 0.2.0-15.3.99 |
gegl SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 | All versions | 0.2.0-15.3.99 |
gegl SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5 | All versions | 0.2.0-15.3.99 |
Products include Gegl Generic Graphics Library.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10113?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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-2018-10113 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10113 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10113, GHSA-732f-45j6-wqx9, SUSE-SU-2020:1658-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10113.