PT-2018-12916 · Libesedb · Libesedb

Published 2018-09-01 · Updated 2024-08-05 · CVE-2018-15161

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libesedb versions prior to 2018-04-01

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb file. This is due to a problem in the libesedb key append data function in libesedb key.c. The vendor has disputed this issue as described in the GitHub issue comments.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2018-04-01, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-15161

Affected Products

Libesedb

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/libyal/libesedb/issues/43 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15161 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15161 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/89167 · Telegram Post