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CVE-2018-20431
- 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-476
Description
GNU Libextractor through 1.8 has a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the function process_metadata() in plugins/ole2_extractor.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=5494
- https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=489c4a540bb2c4744471441425b8932b97a153e7
- 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=5494
- https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=489c4a540bb2c4744471441425b8932b97a153e7
- 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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