CVE-2018-12178
Critical
CVE-2018-12178
Buffer overflow in network stack for EDK II may allow unprivileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network.
Exploit probability
2.3%
Published
March 27, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 14, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-12178
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Buffer overflow in network stack for EDK II may allow unprivileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00046.html
- https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/dns-pack-size-check.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ABTDKZK2G5XP6JCO3HXMPOA2NRTIYDZ/
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03912en_us
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4349-1/