DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8754
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754
Upstream
Published
2018-03-18T03:29:00.277Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:02:52.165510Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The libevtrecordvaluesreadevent() function in libevtrecordvalues.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

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libevt

Package

Name
libevt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20180317-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754.json"

Debian:12 / libevt

Package

Name
libevt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20180317-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754.json"

Debian:13 / libevt

Package

Name
libevt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20180317-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754.json"

Debian:14 / libevt

Package

Name
libevt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20180317-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8754.json"