Source: libextractor
Version: 1:1.8-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5493

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libextractor.

CVE-2018-20430[0]:
| GNU Libextractor through 1.8 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in
| the function history_extract() in plugins/ole2_extractor.c, related to
| EXTRACTOR_common_convert_to_utf8 in common/convert.c.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20430
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20430
[1] https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5493
[2] 
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=b405d707b36e0654900cba78e89f49779efea110

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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