CVE-2018-19760

Publication date 30 November 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

cfg_init in confuse.c in libConfuse 3.2.2 has a memory leak.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
confuse	18.10 cosmic	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

Notes

msalvatore

This CVE may be disputed by upstream. From issue #120: "The bug report is apparently incorrect and the ASAN output looks like a premature exit without cleanup on an error in the caller, not the library." Ignoring this CVE

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H