Bug 1665586 (CVE-2018-20431) - CVE-2018-20431 libextractor: NULL Pointer Dereference in process_metadata in plugins/ole2_extractor.c
Summary: CVE-2018-20431 libextractor: NULL Pointer Dereference in process_metadata in ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-20431
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1665587
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-11 20:36 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:45:15 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-11 20:36:13 UTC 
GNU Libextractor through 1.8 has a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the function process_metadata() in plugins/ole2_extractor.c.


References:
https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5494
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/tree/ChangeLog

Upstream Patch:
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=489c4a540bb2c4744471441425b8932b97a153e7
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-11 20:36:30 UTC 
Created libextractor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665587]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:45:15 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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