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CVE-2018-12422

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2 might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via a long query that is processed by the strcat function. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because "the code had computed the required string length first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the heap.

Affected products

• GNOME Evolution: through 3.29.2

References

• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796174
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/commit/34bad6173
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796174
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/commit/34bad6173

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