CVE-2018-20430

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read9 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GNU LibextractorDebian Debian Linux
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Latest updateMay 14

Description

GNU Libextractor through 1.8 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the function history_extract() in plugins/ole2_extractor.c, related to EXTRACTOR_common_convert_to_utf8 in common/convert.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianlibextractor< 1:1.8-2+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: gnunet.org ↗Patch: gnunet.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-5hcf-wqrv-xp63: GNU Libextractor through 1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
libextractor vulnerabilities↗2020-11-23
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CVEList
CVE-2018-20430: GNU Libextractor through 1↗2018-12-24
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OSV
CVE-2018-20430: GNU Libextractor through 1↗2018-12-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
libextractor vulnerabilities↗2020-11-23
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Debian
CVE-2018-20430: libextractor - GNU Libextractor through 1.8 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the func...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20430 libextractor: out-of-bounds read vulnerability in history_extract in plugins/ole2_extractor.c [fedora-all]↗2019-01-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20430 libextractor: out-of-bounds read vulnerability in history_extract in plugins/ole2_extractor.c↗2019-01-11
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