PublicDateAtUSN: 2018-09-04 00:29:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2018-16430
PublicDate: 2018-09-04 00:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16430
 https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5405
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4641-1
Description:
 GNU Libextractor through 1.7 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in
 EXTRACTOR_zip_extract_method() in zip_extractor.c.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that Libextractor incorrectly handled certain specially
 crafted files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
 of service.
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907987
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.8 HIGH]


Patches_libextractor:
 other: https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=24c8d489797499c0331f4d1039e357ece1ae98a7
upstream_libextractor: released (1:1.7-1)
precise/esm_libextractor: DNE
trusty_libextractor: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_libextractor: DNE (trusty was needs-triage)
xenial_libextractor: released (1:1.3-4+deb9u3build0.16.04.1)
bionic_libextractor: needed
cosmic_libextractor: ignored (reached end-of-life)
disco_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
eoan_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
focal_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
groovy_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
hirsute_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
impish_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
jammy_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)
devel_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.7-1)