CVE-2018-12178 (GCVE-0-2018-12178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-27 19:19 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:30
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Escalation of Privilege and/or Denial of Service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2019-03-26 00:00
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