CVE-2018-12178

Publication date 27 March 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.1 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Buffer overflow in network stack for EDK II may allow unprivileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
edk2 20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
edk2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.1 · Critical

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

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