SB2018123101 - Debian update for libextractor
Published: December 31, 2018
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20430)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to out-of-bounds read in the function history_extract() in plugins/ole2_extractor.c, related to EXTRACTOR_common_convert_to_utf8 in common/convert.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20431)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dreference error in the function process_metadata() in plugins/ole2_extractor.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.