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CVE-2018-10773 json

NULL pointer deference in the addsn function in serialno.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denia…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-2843

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NULL pointer deference in the addsn function in serialno.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by copac2xml.

Patch / fix

  • bibutils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.10-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10773

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10773 updated cvss 2.8

bibutils: NULL pointer deference in addsn function in serialno.c in libbibcore.a

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 bibutils, bibutils-libs, ghc-hs-bibutils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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