PT-2018-11011 · Libyal · Liblnk

Published 2018-06-19 · Updated 2024-08-05 · CVE-2018-12098

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions liblnk versions through 2018-04-19

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure via a crafted lnk file. This is due to a heap-based buffer over-read in the liblnk data block read function in liblnk data block.c. The vendor has disputed this issue, as described in libyal/liblnk issue 33 on GitHub.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-12098

Affected Products

Liblnk

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12098 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12098 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12098 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12098 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12098 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12098 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12098 · Vendor Advisory
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jun/33 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/89152 · Telegram Post