DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20430

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20430
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20430.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20430
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2018-12-24T05:29:01Z
Modified
2026-09-01T16:04:41Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Debian:12 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.8-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20430.json"

Debian:13 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.8-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20430.json"

Debian:14 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.8-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20430.json"