Out-of-Bounds Affecting evolution-data-server package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-EVOLUTIONDATASERVER-289607
  • published15 Jun 2018
  • disclosed15 Jun 2018

Introduced: 15 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12422  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 evolution-data-server.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evolution-data-server package and not the evolution-data-server package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2 might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via a long query that is processed by the strcat function. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because "the code had computed the required string length first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the heap.