What is CVE-2018-7554?

CVE-2018-7554 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Sam2p Project, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-28.

How severe is CVE-2018-7554?

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

Use After Free in Sam2p Project

CVE-2018-7554

There is an invalid free in ReadImage in input-bmp.ci that leads to a Segmentation fault in sam2p 0.49.4. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published 2018-02-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (82.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.022 · change: +0.002

Affected products

Sam2p Project — versions 0.49.4
Debian Linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

References

github.com/pts/sam2p/issues/29 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00004.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7554?: CVE-2018-7554 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Sam2p Project, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2018-7554?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.