NULL pointer dereference in the _fields_add function in fields.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by end2xml.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - NULL pointer dereference in the _fields_add function in fields.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by end2xml.
    (CVE-2018-10775)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to 6.6.

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Version 6.5

  - address CVE-2018-10773, CVE-2018-10774, CVE-2018-10775

  - fix injection of Fedora LDFLAGS

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Security fix for CVE-2018-10773 CVE-2018-10774 CVE-2018-10775 (in bibutils C library bundled with ghc-hs-bibutils)

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250575	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-10775	Nessus	Misc.	medium
120485	Fedora 28 : bibutils (2018-67914db5d9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
120341	Fedora 28 : ghc-hakyll / ghc-hs-bibutils / pandoc-citeproc (2018-33fef25ed1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
111474	Fedora 27 : bibutils (2018-9ec3061fc8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-10775

medium

Tenable Plugins

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