What is CVE-2018-10114?

CVE-2018-10114 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gegl, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-04-16.

How severe is CVE-2018-10114?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-10114 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Gegl

CVE-2018-10114

An issue was discovered in GEGL through 0.3.32. The gegl_buffer_iterate_read_simple function in buffer/gegl-buffer-access.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (write access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed PPM file, related to improper restrictions on memory allocation in the ppm_load_read_header function in operations/external/ppm-load.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.019 (77.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Gegl
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

xiaoqx/pocs

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10114?: CVE-2018-10114 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gegl, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-04-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-10114?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-10114 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.