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CVE-2018-20430

Date: December 24, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=b405d707b36e0654900cba78e89f49779efea110

Url: https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/tree/ChangeLog

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4361

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106300

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20430

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00015.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20430

Url: https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5493

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-20430

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-20430

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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