CVE-2018-11218

Public Exploit

Description

Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer overflows.

Category

9.8
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 13.16% Top 10%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104553 third party advisory vdb entry
https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/5017 third party advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4230 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0052 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/5ccb6f7a791bf3490357b00a898885759d98bab0 third party advisory patch
http://antirez.com/news/119 third party advisory exploit
https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/52a00201fca331217c3b4b8b634f6a0f57d6b7d3 patch third party advisory exploit
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0094 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/4.0/00-RELEASENOTES third party advisory
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/5.0/00-RELEASENOTES third party advisory
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html third party advisory patch
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1860 vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-04 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-11218?
CVE-2018-11218 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-11218?
To fix CVE-2018-11218, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-11218 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2018-11218 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~13% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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