CVE-2018-12601 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-787) affecting sam2p 0.49.4, including its Debian Linux packages. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve further unspecified impacts over a network with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.49.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sam2p_project:sam2p:0.49.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.