Bug 1749218 (CVE-2019-15531)

Summary:	CVE-2019-15531 libextractor: heap-based buffer over-read in function EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method in plugins/dvi_extractor.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-09-05 07:29:53 UTC

GNU Libextractor through 1.9 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method in plugins/dvi_extractor.c

Reference:
https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=5846
https://git.gnunet.org/libextractor.git/commit/?id=d2b032452241708bee68d02aa02092cfbfba951a

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-09-05 07:30:06 UTC

Created libextractor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1749219]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-09-05 13:07:20 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.