Name | CVE-2018-18718 |
Description | An issue was discovered in gThumb through 3.6.2. There is a double-free vulnerability in the add_themes_from_dir method in dlg-contact-sheet.c because of two successive calls of g_free, each of which frees the same buffer. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-1567-1 |
NVD severity | medium (attack range: local) |
Debian Bugs | 912290 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
gthumb (PTS) | jessie | 3:3.3.1-2 | vulnerable |
jessie (security) | 3:3.3.1-2.1+deb8u1 | fixed | |
stretch | 3:3.4.4.1-5 | vulnerable | |
buster, sid | 3:3.6.2-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gthumb | source | (unstable) | 3:3.6.2-2 | unimportant | 912290 | |
gthumb | source | jessie | 3:3.3.1-2.1+deb8u1 | medium | DLA-1567-1 |
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/issues/18
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/commit/06c39346fda502bd37429006d4822dd977995661 (master)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/commit/f3edf6952757f887569e8c26cf18d40409f3fdca (3.6)
Crash in end user application, no security impact