CVE-2018-15159 (GCVE-0-2018-15159)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-01 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:46 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
The libesedb_page_read_tags function in libesedb_page.c in libesedb through 2018-04-01 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb file. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in the GitHub issue comments
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-31 00:00
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