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CVE-2018-5345

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: none known
• Published: 2018-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow within GNOME gcab through 0.7.4 can be exploited by malicious attackers to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code via a crafted .cab file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 17.10
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: all versions
• GNOME Gcab: through 0.7.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.4, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.4, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0350
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527296
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3546-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4095
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0350
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527296
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3546-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4095

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