NVD HIGH: CVE-2018-25258 — RGui 3.5.0 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability in the GUI preferences...

Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 01:16 PM UTC·Source: NIST NVD

Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTC

Executive Summary

RGui 3.5.0 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability in the GUI preferences dialog that allows attackers to bypass DEP protections through structured exception handling exploitation. Attackers can craft malicious input in the Language for menus and messages field to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, execute a ROP chain for VirtualAlloc allocation, and achieve arbitrary code execution.

Analysis

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)

CVE-2018-25258

NVD MITRE CVE

Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Apr 12, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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