CVE-2018-20534

NameCVE-2018-20534
DescriptionThere 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
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs923002

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libsolv (PTS)bullseye0.7.17-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm0.7.23-1+deb12u1fixed
trixie0.7.30-2fixed
sid0.7.31-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libsolvsource(unstable)0.6.36-1unimportant923002

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

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