Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting extractor package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
24.13% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-EXTRACTOR-1912072
  • published5 Nov 2021
  • disclosed5 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2021

CVE-2006-2458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Extractor.

Overview

Extractor is a bindings for GNU libextractor, the metadata extractor

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow. Multiple heap-based buffer overflows exist, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the asf_read_header function in the ASF plugin (plugins/asfextractor.c), and (2) the parse_trak_atom function in the QT plugin (plugins/qtextractor.c).

CVSS Scores

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