Critical severity9.8OSV Advisory· Published Jun 15, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-12422
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.
Affected products
2- Range: 3.27.4, 3.27.90, 3.27.91, …
- Range: <=3.29.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/commit/34bad6173nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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