CVE-2018-20860 Denial of service in n/a
A malformed MED file can cause a crash in the libopenmpt library, leading to a denial of service for applications using it.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-20860?
CVE-2018-20860 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 30 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
libopenmpt before 0.3.13 allows a crash with malformed MED files.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-20860?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Openmpt Libopenmpt, Opensuse Leap.
How do I fix CVE-2018-20860?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2018-20860 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-20860 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20860, GHSA-rhfq-j8mm-hh2p, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20860.