High
Security advisory
remctld in remctl before 3.14, when an attacker is authorized to execute a command that uses the sudo option, has a use-after-free that leads to a daemon crash, memory corruption, or arbitrary command execution.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-0493
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
remctld in remctl before 3.14, when an attacker is authorized to execute a command that uses the sudo option, has a use-after-free that leads to a daemon crash, memory corruption, or arbitrary command execution.
osv:CVE-2018-0493
Complete source record
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