Medium
Security advisory
The igraph_i_strdiff function in igraph_trie.c in igraph through 0.7.1 has an NULL pointer dereference that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted object.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20349
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The igraph_i_strdiff function in igraph_trie.c in igraph through 0.7.1 has an NULL pointer dereference that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted object.
osv:CVE-2018-20349
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:05.363978588Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00038.html",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NCGDUNQYLSZLSGN6JJBORVFW46U3A75Y/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OWCGXEINKJM3JQUPVCSN4RBTRKWBTYI7/",
"https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/1141"
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"published_at": "2018-12-22T00:29:00.273+00:00"
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