CVE-2018-12422

Publication date 15 June 2018

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2 might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via a long query that is processed by the strcat function. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because "the code had computed the required string length first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the heap.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
evolution 18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
evolution-data-server 18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream developer disputes this issue, and has filed a claim to reject the CVE. Marking as ignored.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
evolution
evolution-data-server

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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