Bug 1665582 (CVE-2018-20430) - CVE-2018-20430 libextractor: out-of-bounds read vulnerability in history_extract in plugins/ole2_extractor.c
Summary: CVE-2018-20430 libextractor: out-of-bounds read vulnerability in history_extr...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-20430
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1665583
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-11 20:33 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:45:13 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-11 20:33:04 UTC 
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.


References:
https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5493
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/tree/ChangeLog

Upstream Patch:
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=b405d707b36e0654900cba78e89f49779efea110
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-11 20:33:18 UTC 
Created libextractor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665583]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:45:13 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.
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