Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-18064

medium Nessus Plugin ID 222106

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

- cairo through 1.15.14 has an out-of-bounds stack-memory write during processing of a crafted document by WebKitGTK+ because of the interaction between cairo-rectangular-scan-converter.c (the generate and render_rows functions) and cairo-image-compositor.c (the _cairo_image_spans_and_zero function).
(CVE-2018-18064)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-18064

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18064

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18064

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 222106

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2018_18064.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 8/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18064

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:thunderbird, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cairo, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cairo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cairo, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-cairo

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18064