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Ubuntu: USN-4641-1 (CVE-2018-20430): libextractor vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4641-1 (CVE-2018-20430): libextractor vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/24/2018
Created
11/27/2020
Added
11/24/2020
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-extract
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libextractor-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libextractor3

References

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