{"action":"Upgrade gnulib to 20140202+stable-3.1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"20140202+stable-3.1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"gnulib","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["20140202+stable-3.1"],"id":"tcs_01M5ND6A48TSW0VDCFYHMDP4ZK","modified_at":"2026-10-23T18:03:02.516814888Z","published_at":"2018-10-03T08:29:00.430Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17942"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":8.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942#Debian:14/gnulib","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17942"}],"summary":"The convert_to_decimal function in vasnprintf.c in Gnulib before 2018-09-23 has a heap-based buffer overflow because memory is not allocated for a trailing '\\0' character during %f processing."}