Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libextractor package, versions [,1.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBEXTRACTOR-2374245
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Dec 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade libextractor to version 1.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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