Medium
bibutils — security advisory
NULL pointer deference in the addsn function in serialno.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by copac2xml.
- Products
- bibutils
- Affected versions
- 4.12-5, 4.12-5build1, 6.10-2, 6.2-1, 7.1-3, 7.2-1, 7.2-2, 7.2-3, 7.2-3build1, 7.2-4
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10773
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
NULL pointer deference in the addsn function in serialno.c in libbibcore.a in bibutils through 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by copac2xml.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10773
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Complete source record
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