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CVE-2018-20004 (GCVE-0-2018-20004)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-10 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:51
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Summary
An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-12-10 00:00
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