CVE-2018-20593

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In Mini-XML (aka mxml) v2.12, there is stack-based buffer overflow in the scan_file function in mxmldoc.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20593

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20593.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.0-1
debian debiansidfixed3.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.