CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19208

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 12, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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In libwpd 0.10.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp that will lead to a denial of service attack. This is related to WPXTable.h.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibwpdLibwpd_project0.10.2 (including)0.10.2 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatlibwpd-0:0.10.0-2.el7*
LibwpdUbuntubionic*
LibwpdUbuntucosmic*
LibwpdUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
LibwpdUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
LibwpdUbuntutrusty*
LibwpdUbuntuupstream*
LibwpdUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References