CVE-2018-20430: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• GNU Libextractor: up to and including 1.8

Published 2018-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.