Critical
Security advisory
In SwiftNIO before 1.8.0, a buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-4281
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In SwiftNIO before 1.8.0, a buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.
osv:CVE-2018-4281
Complete source record
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