Buffer Overflow in Evolution-Data-Server Allows Attackers to Trigger Overflow via Long Query

CVE-2018-12422 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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