UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5345

A stack-based buffer overflow within GNOME gcab through 0.7.4 can be exploited by malicious attackers to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code via a crafted .cab file.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / gcab

Package

Name: gcab
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/gcab@0.7-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.7-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.6-1

0.6-1ubuntu1

0.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.7-1ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "gcab"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.7-1ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-libgcab-1.0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.7-1ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgcab-1.0-0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.7-1ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgcab-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}