{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-17407 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2018-17407 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-17407 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-17407 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-17407 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17407/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17407/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-17407","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17407/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-17407","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17407","DLA-1514-1","DSA-4299-1","GHSA-g32p-2jpf-2cg9","MGASA-2018-0397","RHSA-2020:1036","SUSE-SU-2018:3033-1","SUSE-SU-2018:3033-2","SUSE-SU-2018:3033-3","SUSE-SU-2018:3122-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17407"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"TeX Live typesetting","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A buffer overflow in TeX Live allows arbitrary code execution when processing malicious Type 1 fonts with tools like pdflatex or dvips.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"},{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"tex_live","vendor":"tug"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-119","name":"Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer"}],"description":"An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. 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Write","id":"CVE-2019-16928","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2019-09-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2018-6789","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2018-02-08"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2015-2590","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2015-07-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle JRE Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2013-0422","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2013-01-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution","id":"CVE-2011-3544","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2011-10-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API 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