UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20430

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20430

    Published: 24 Dec 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-20430
    Aliases:
    USN-4641-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20430, https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5493, https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=b405d707b36e0654900cba78e89f49779efea110, https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/tree/ChangeLog, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00015.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4641-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20430

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libextractor

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libextractor@1:1.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:1.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    1:1.1-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High