CVE-2018-8754

Publication date 18 March 2018

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The libevt_record_values_read_event() function in libevt_record_values.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

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libevt	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 20170120-2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 20170120-2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 20170120-2
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 20170120-2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 20170120-2
	21.10 impish	Fixed 20170120-2
	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 20170120-2
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 20170120-2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 20170120-2
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 20170120-2
	19.04 disco	Fixed 20170120-2
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 20170120-2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 20170120-2
	17.10 artful	Fixed 20170120-1+deb9u1build0.17.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libevt	Upstream: 444ca3c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H