CVE-2018-7553

Publication date 28 February 2018

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the pcxLoadRaster function of in_pcx.cpp in sam2p 0.49.4. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that Sam2p incorrectly handled certain image files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sam2p	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.49.2-3+deb8u3build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.49.2-3+deb8u3build0.14.04.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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