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CVE-2018-20430

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• GNU libextractor: through 1.8

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106300
• 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://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4361
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106300
• 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://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4361

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