CVE-2017-18201

Publication date 26 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU libcdio before 2.0.0. There is a double free in get_cdtext_generic() in lib/driver/_cdio_generic.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libcdio 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.0.0-2ubuntu2
17.10 artful
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

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Notes

leosilva

code not present in trusty, xenial and artful.

sbeattie

introduced in upstream commit dbf6d247 (v0.90)

bruce-cable

Fixed in version 2.0.0 Bionic code patched by Leonidas S. Barbosa and Steve Langasek

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libcdio

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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