High severity · published Oct 29, 2018
CVE-2018-18718
An issue was discovered in gThumb through 3.6.2
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in gThumb through 3.6.2. There is a double-free vulnerability in the add_themes_from_dir method in dlg-contact-sheet.c because of two successive calls of g_free, each of which frees the same buffer.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
GT
Gthumb · Gnome
through 3.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18718
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18718
Patch
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/issues/18
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00002.html
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