CVE-2018-11698

Publication date 4 June 2018

Last updated 2 April 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1 · High

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function Sass::handle_error which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libsass 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needed
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
libsass

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.1 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4837-1
    • LibSass vulnerabilities
    • 15 March 2021

Other references