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

2026-10-28T02:30:41Z

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

Last Affected

d76fd0bb21601e2969bc88ffdaeb861023f6a5b2

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "20260924"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StandardRange"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "20260924"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other

20240506

20260924

Database specific

source

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