Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libextractor package, versions <1:1.3-4+deb9u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBEXTRACTOR-313436
  • published24 Dec 2018
  • disclosed24 Dec 2018

Introduced: 24 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20430  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 libextractor to version 1:1.3-4+deb9u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libextractor package and not the libextractor package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.