CVE-2026-111159

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-111159
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-111159.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-111159
Downstream
Published
2026-10-15T18:57:47Z
Modified
2026-10-17T02:46:44Z
Severity
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
libewf through 20260924 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via L01 Extended Attribute Parsing
Details

libewf through 20260924 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in libewf_lef_extended_attribute_read_data() because UTF-16 name and value sizes are validated before being doubled. Attackers can supply a crafted .L01/.Lx01 file with oversized 'ea' metadata counts to crash the application or leak uninitialized heap memory through extended attributes.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-125"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/111xxx/CVE-2026-111159.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libyal/libewf

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libyal/libewf
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d76fd0bb21601e2969bc88ffdaeb861023f6a5b2
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "20260924"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "20260924"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "DESCRIPTION"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
20240506

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-111159.json"