| Name | CVE-2018-20534 |
| Description | There is an illegal address access at ext/testcase.c in libsolv.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue stating that the issue affects the test suite and not the underlying library. It cannot be exploited in any real-world application |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 923002 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libsolv (PTS) | bullseye | 0.7.17-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.7.23-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.7.31-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libsolv | source | (unstable) | 0.6.36-1 | unimportant | | 923002 |
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652604
https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/pull/291
https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/commit/4830af9d979d3685de538b80fbeba51ad590525e
Only affects the test suite