What is CVE-2018-12916?

CVE-2018-12916 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pbc Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-06-27.

How severe is CVE-2018-12916?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Pbc Project

CVE-2018-12916

In libpbc.a in PBC through 2017-03-02, there is a Segmentation fault in _pbcP_message_default in proto.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.015 (71.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pbc_project Pbc
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-12916?: CVE-2018-12916 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pbc Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-06-27.
How severe is CVE-2018-12916?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.