Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libextractor package, versions [,1.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.7% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBEXTRACTOR-2374256
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16430  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libextractor to version 1.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. GNU Libextractor through 1.7 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_zip_extract_method() in zip_extractor.c.

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