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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2018-09-18 | |
| Rule Name: | MISC GNU Libextractor ZIP File Comment Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability(CVE-2018-16430) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | GNU Libextractor through 1.7 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_zip_extract_method() in zip_extractor.c. | |
| Impact: | Attackers can exploit this issue to crash the application denying service to legitimate users or disclose sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. | |
| Affected OS: | Network Device, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Other Unix, Linux, Others, Android | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:105254 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4290 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00011.html https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5405 https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=24c8d489797499c0331f4d1039e357ece1ae98a7 |
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| Solutions |
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| There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. |