CVE-2018-8754

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-8754
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-18 03:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:01:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** The libevt_record_values_read_event() function in libevt_record_values.c in libevt before 2018-03-17 does not properly check for out-of-bounds values of user SID data size, strings size, or data size. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in libyal/libevt issue 5 on GitHub.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Libevt Project Libevt All All All All
Application Libevt Project Libevt All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4160-1 libevt DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Applied updates and addition boundary checks for corrupted data · libyal/libevt@9d2cc3c · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
libevt2018-07-11Joachim MetzFor a project specific advisory see: https://github.com/libyal/libevt/issues/5.

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