CVE-2018-16430 — GNU Libextractor through 1

GNU Libextractor through 1.7 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_zip_extract_method() in zip_extractor.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

GNU Libextractor through 1.7 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_zip_extract_method() in zip_extractor.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.039Z

09References

• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4290
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105254
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00011.html
• gnunet.org — https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5405
• gnunet.org — https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=24c8d489797499c0331f4d1039e35…