CVE-2018-20004

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    CVE-2018-20004

    Published: 10 Dec 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N53IJHDYR5HVQLKH4J6B27OEQLGKSGY5/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RNWF6BAU7S42O4LE4B74KIMHFE2HDNMI/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00018.html, https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/mxml#stack-buffer-overflow-in-function-mxml_write_node, https://github.com/michaelrsweet/mxml/issues/233

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3aaa12c7d709d05286255d191998f29105dd407a
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.12

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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