| Name | CVE-2018-12422 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 901665 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| evolution-data-server (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 3.22.7-1+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.30.5-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 3.30.5-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.38.3-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.46.4-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.54.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796174
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/commit/34bad6173
non-issue, to be rejected