CVE-2018-17942General(gnu / gnulib)

LOWCVSS 8.8 · HIGH

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

The convert_to_decimal function in vasnprintf.c in Gnulib before 2018-09-23 has a heap-based buffer overflow because memory is not allocated for a trailing '\0' character during %f processing.

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0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Patch / fix

Exploit / PoC references

Other references

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-787

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

gnulib

Threat summary

1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

General: 1 classified signal
1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors

gnu

Products

gnulib

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d

Signal classification1 categories

General

1100.0%

Referenced assets6 URLs

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Full discourse1 post

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@NCyotee @stupidtechtakes [CVE-2025-5278](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5278) [CVE-2024-0684](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0684) [CVE-2018-17942](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17942) [CVE-2015-4041](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4041) [CVE-2013-0223](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0223) [CVE-2013-0222](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0222)
Post summary
The tweet lists multiple CVE identifiers and links to their NVD entries, but provides no additional technical or exploit information.
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CPE platform detail1 entries

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Part	Vendor	Product	Version	Target SW	Target HW
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