CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-111159
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
libewf through 20260924 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in libewf_lef_extended_attribute_read_data() because UTF-16 name and value sizes are validated before being doubled. Attackers can supply a crafted .L01/.Lx01 file with oversized 'ea' metadata counts to crash the application or leak uninitialized heap memory through extended attributes.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/libyal/libewf github.com
- https://github.com/libyal/libewf/blob/d76fd0bb21601e2969bc88ffdaeb861023f6a5b2/libewf/libewf_lef_extended_attribute.c#L362-L408 github.com
- https://github.com/libyal/libewf/blob/d76fd0bb21601e2969bc88ffdaeb861023f6a5b2/libewf/libewf_lef_extended_attribute.c#L456-L560 github.com
- https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/libewf-lef-extended-attribute-utf16-size-oob-read hackmd.io
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libewf-through-20260924-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-l01-extended-attribute-parsing www.vulncheck.com