CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-11499

Use After Free

Published: May 26, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in handle_error() in sass_context.cpp in LibSass 3.4.x and 3.5.x through 3.5.4 that could be leveraged to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly unspecified other impact.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libsass Sass-lang 3.4.0 (including) 3.5.4 (including)
Libsass Ubuntu artful *
Libsass Ubuntu bionic *
Libsass Ubuntu cosmic *
Libsass Ubuntu disco *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libsass Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libsass Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References