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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-12422

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CVE-2018-12422

evolution-data-server: Unsafe use of strcat allows buffer overflow in addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
debian 12evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
debian 13evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
debian 14evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
echoevolution-data-server3.28.5-1
Red Hatevolution-data-server, evolution-data-server-devel, evolution-data-server-doc and 3 moreno fix listed
Show all 11 entries from 6 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
debian 12evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
debian 13evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
debian 14evolution-data-server3.28.5-1
echoevolution-data-server3.28.5-1
Red Hatevolution-data-serverno fix listed
Red Hatevolution-data-server-develno fix listed
Red Hatevolution-data-server-docno fix listed
Red Hatevolution-data-server-langpacksno fix listed
Red Hatevolution-data-server-perlno fix listed
Red Hatevolution-data-server-testsno fix listed

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.