Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libextractor  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-LIBEXTRACTOR-658828
  • published26 Oct 2017
  • disclosed26 Oct 2017

Introduced: 26 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15922  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libextractor package and not the libextractor package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an out-of-bounds read in the EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function in plugins/dvi_extractor.c.