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CVE-2018-14347

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

GNU Libextractor before 1.7 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_mpeg_extract_method (mpeg_extractor.c).

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• GNU libextractor: before 1.7 — fixed in 1.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU libextractor 1.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2018-07/msg00000.html
• https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5399
• https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=f033468cd36e2b8bf92d747fbd683b2ace8da394
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00025.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4290
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2018-07/msg00000.html
• https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5399
• https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=f033468cd36e2b8bf92d747fbd683b2ace8da394
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00025.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4290

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