High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-5345

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow within GNOME gcab through 0.7.4 can be exploited by malicious attackers to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code via a crafted .cab file.

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Affected products

GNOME Foundation/Gcabllm-fuzzy
Range: <=0.7.4
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/gcab&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 1.4-2.9

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0350nvdThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
usn.ubuntu.com/3546-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4095nvdThird Party Advisory

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