Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-20451

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The processfile function in reader.c in libdoc through 2017-10-23 has a heap-based buffer over-read that allows attackers to cause a denial of service applicati...

CVE-2018-20451

The vulnerability CVE-2018-20451 affects the libdoc library (reader.c, process_file) through 2017-10-23, where a heap-based buffer over-read allows a crafted file to cause a denial of service (application crash). Connected sources consistently describe this as a heap-based over-read in the proces...